This week the billionaire investor helped clear the backlog of LBO-related debt. Amanda Janis examines the actions by the ‘Oracle of Omaha’.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
CVC Capital Partners, the global buyout firm, is consulting investors for its latest fundraising effort while its chairman Michael Smith has reportedly said limited partners as long-term investors are not driven by short-term problems.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Mounir Guen, chief executive of MVision, a global placement agent, joins PEO on day three of its Countdown to 2008.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
In PEO's second installment in its Countdown to 2008, Mario Giannini, chief executive of global investment advisory firm Hamilton Lane, predicts a relatively benign year for the industry despite a "wall of worry".
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Differences remain between European and US investors, according to the latest research. The former also backed the re-emergence of European venture as opposed to their circumspect peers in the US.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The educational publishing house has agreed to sell its college-related arm to the consortium, which will add it on to Cengage, the former Thomson Learning division it acquired in July for $8 billion.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Flowers consortium is offering to pay back more of the UK Bank of England’s loan than the Virgin/WL Ross consortium’s bid preferred by Northern Rock’s board. UK Chancellor Alistair Darling is reportedly encouraging rival bids.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Bill Richardson is the latest Democratic Presidential candidate to join the carried interest debate on Capitol Hill – but unlike his peers, he does not endorse the tax-raising proposals carte blanche.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Bill Richardson is the latest Democratic Presidential candidate to join the carried interest debate on Capitol Hill – but unlike his peers, he does not endorse the tax-raising proposals carte blanche.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Increasing fund sizes and periods of heavy fundraising have historically correlated with decreasing returns, according to research presented by two prominent US scholars.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
