By steering clear of the crowds, focusing on young portfolios and targeting fast-growth markets, Partners Group is demonstrating it has its own take on the private equity secondaries market.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
KPS Special Situations and Pegasus Partners have already recouped 1.5x their investment in Genesis Worldwide thanks to a unit sale to Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
New York-based Solera Capital has bolstered its Homegrown Naturals organic food platform with the purchase of Annie’s Naturals, a maker of salad dressings and condiments.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The specialist European investor in the wind market has reached an interim close of its second dedicated wind energy fund after six months of fundraising.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Thomas H. Lee is reportedly leaving the Boston-based LBO firm he founded with plans to raise a rival buyout fund.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Thomas H. Lee Partners has filed a lawsuit against the former Refco management. The complaint could help shift the public’s perception of the firm from Refco insider to a victim of the futures broker’s deceit.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Silver Lake Partners agreed to take Serena Software private for roughly $1.2 billion, in what has been a busy week for public-to-private transactions.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Stockholm-headquartered private equity specialist EQT is in the process of raising a €250 million turnaround fund, the first of its kind in the Nordic region.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Michael Pilson of DuPont Capital Management talks to Robert Venes about the role of turnaround, restructuring and distressed funds in his firm’s private equity investment portfolio.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
The Nordic-based private equity firm has completed its sixth deal in the Benelux region, acquiring two subsidiaries from the retail multinational.
2 min read · 12 January 2013