Americas 2003-08-01 Staff Writer <strong>Monitor<br> America</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Push the peanut</strong><br> <bold>Sponsor-to-sponsor buyouts are in vogue – and to many investors, a cause for concern. Are private equity firms buying fr
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Europe 2003-08-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Monitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Viennese Whirl</strong><br> <bold>At EVCA's 20th anniversary annual meeting in June, a panel of leading private equity practitioners took a view on what lies
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The Swiss insurance group has sacked the CEO and COO of its private equity unit as part of plans to withdraw from the asset class after branding it a non-core operation.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US investment bank has named former Merrill Lynch director James Greenwood as co-head of its European leveraged finance team.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Private Equity Holding has secured its immediate future after Swiss Life agreed to extend a SFr325m credit facility beyond the 10 March expiry date.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
At this point in the cycle, the ambitions and anxieties of investors have a strong bearing on the mood in the asset class. So which buyside representatives are setting the tone on fundraising, terms and conditions and alignment of interest with general partners? Private Equity International selects the limited partners that matter in Europe.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Americas 2003-06-01 Staff Writer <strong>America<br> Monitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>The ironies of disclosure</strong><br> <bold>Both LPs and GPs are saying they have no problem with the wave of Freedom of Information requests flooding US
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Europe 2003-06-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Deals & Exit</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>BC Partners pips rivals for cable deal</strong><br> Deutsche Bank and BC Partners have reached agreement over the acquisition of TeleColumbus Group by fund
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The Warsaw-based private equity firm has taken a 36 per cent stake in Polish credit card services business PolCard.
2 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.
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