Could the European private equity boom be coming to an end?
4 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 New York-based global private equity firm has said in a statement that it expects to be cleared of any wrongdoing over the disposal of its stake in LG Card Co.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
OPENED & CLOSED 2005-03-02 Staff Writer <strong>OPENED & CLOSED</strong><br> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="5">FUNDS OPENED</td> </tr> <tr> <td>FUND</td>
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
Understanding the legal framework surrounding shareholder issues in private companies is crucial to buy-out practitioners. Here, in an extract from The UK LBO Manual, a recently-published guide to structuring buy-outs in the United Kingdom, Charlie Geffen, Head of Private Equity at international law firm Ashurst, outlines issues surrounding income, capital and voting rights.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
In 2002, Guy Hands took his team of professionals at Nomura Principal Finance Group and spun out from the Japanese securities house. Since then, Terra Firma has raised a multi-billion Euro fund and been trawling Europe for assets. But for Hands there has also been the small matter of growing and managing the business. In January, Philip Borel stopped by the group's new home on the South Bank of the River Thames to ask how things were going
10 min read · 12 January 2013
When dealing with their bankers, LBO firms are calling the shots – for now
4 min read · 12 January 2013
