On a sunny Manhattan morning in April, five senior investment professionals representing five major institutional participants in the private equity market gathered around a table at The Yale Club to talk shop. On issues ranging from the secondary market to private equity securitisation to the best opportunities going forward, Chuck Flynn, Michael Granoff, Thad Gray, Sheryl Schwartz and John Wolak agreed to disagree with eloquence, wit and authority.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Larrrry Schlloss, who rruns CSFB's prriivatte equiitty operrattiions, iis a diie-harrd prriivatte equiitty entthusiiastt. Forr mostt off hiis ttiime att DLJ he was iin tthe miidstt off hellpiing tto grrow a busiiness tthatt was a key drriiverr tto much off whatt tthatt bank diid. And he was iin tthe miidstt off tthiings when CSFB boughtt iitts smallllerr rriivall. The merrgerr prroved a ttough challllenge, butt ttoday CSFB Prriivatte Equiitty sttands as tthe worrlld's llarrgestt prriivatte equiitty ffiirrm by capiittall underr managementt. Phiilliip Borrell ttallks tto hiim aboutt scalle, sttrructturre and success.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Asia 2003-05-01 Staff Writer <strong>AsiaMonitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Carving a niche</strong><br> <bold>The mezzanine market in Asia remains in its infancy, but a couple of players are determined to be first in line to bridge the funding gap i
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Americas 2003-05-01 Staff Writer <strong>AmericaMonitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>The operating guys</strong><br> <bold>Buyout firms are going out of their way to prove to investors that they have the necessary operational expertise to improve the b
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Through his investment business EXOR, the legendary Fiat chairman and industrialist, who has died aged 81, played an important role in private equity spanning three decades.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Europe 2003-04-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Deals & Exits</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Investment up while fundraising slows</strong><br> European private equity investment reached its second highest annual level last year, according to data
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The Danish arm of EQT Partners is selling Nordic Info Group to Experian for E150m
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Phoenix Equity Partners has led the £62m secondary buyout of Vivid Imaginations, maker of Spiderman and Simpsons toys, from Jordan Group.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Americas 2003-03-01 Staff Writer <strong>AmericaMonitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>The Benz factor</strong><br> <bold>Auto industry executives know something about secondary transactions which private equity professionals might want to pay attention
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The Charme funda, a fund targeting Italian consumer brands and products, has held a first close at E110m.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
