The current increase in fundraising activity is good news for placement agents. But intense competition for mandates and a sharpened focus on professional standards means a shakeout in the industry is likely to occur, writes Philip Borel.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
GRAEME WHITE<br/>HEAD OF BARCLAYS PRIVATE EQUITY 2005-04-02 Staff Writer Graeme White, managing director and head of Barclays Private Equity, has died after an 11-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He passed away peacefully and surrounded by his family at his London home on March 4th. He was 51 years
5 min read · 12 January 2013
ROSEY OUTLOOK 2005-04-02 Staff Writer Last month, Blackstone co-founder Stephen Schwarzman was given the Charlie Rose treatment. Rose is known to America because of The Charlie Rose Show, a high-brow, public television interview programme. Rose interviewed Schwarzman as part of a series of discussions aired
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The electronic payment company has filed an initial public offering after a June recapitalization by the Chicago firm yielded a shareholder dividend in excess of $110m.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Tokyo-based buyout house has announced the final closing of its second private equity fund on 75bn yen: 50% ahead of its original target.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
John Muse and the rest of the Dallas leadership of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst say they have finetuned a ‘formula for success’, and it doesn't involve Europe, Latin America, high tech or Tom Hicks. David Snow reports.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Vincenzo Morelli returns to the fray as TPG's new European operations pointman.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Governor Schwarzenegger wants CalPERS to become a ‘defined-contribution’ plan. Is this a harbinger of the end of days for traditional public pensions in private equity?
4 min read · 12 January 2013
New York-based Paul Capital Partners has securitised most of the assets in a $300m drug-royalty fund.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Harvest Partners takes money off the table in the $268m recapitalization of AMH Holdings, a manufacturer of exterior building products, less than one week after its acquisition of Levlad, a personal care products company.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
