Two major “yellow pages” exits show that timely investments in directory companies were good calls.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Although some will argue that the fund of fund phenomenon has yet to pass through an inevitable period of contraction, the impact they have already had in bringing private equity into the portfolios of previously untapped institutional investors has been huge. So how are they coping in today's tougher climate?
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The Philadelphia private equity firm and the merchant banking arm of the investment bank Greenhill & Co. team up for another investment in the financial services industry, investing $40m for a minority stake in the specialty finance company.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
There's no denying that the mid-market remains the major talking point in a French private equity market wrestling with competition and overly aggressive leverage. But, just over the horizon, lies a vision of a mature industry populated by well-differentiated managers. Andy Thomson reports.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
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
