The private equity firm is committing $100m to a joint venture with Williamsburg, Virginia-based hotel REIT MHI.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has signed yet another mega-deal, agreeing to pay $29 billion for First Data, a US listed electronic payments business. It has now signed up to over $100 billion of deals in a matter of weeks.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Cerberus Capital Management has agreed to buy Novi, Michigan-based Tower Automotive, which will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the Southern District of New York next month.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
KKR’s Euronext-listed vehicle, KKR Private Equity Investors, has invested or committed $4.3 billion in just ten months, the firm said today.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Unitus Equity Fund has decided to set aside 10 percent of its profits to help the world’s poor gain access to microfinance.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The California-based firm’s investment has followed the first close of its first discretionary institutional buyout fund, Fairmont Capital Private Equity LP.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The co-founder of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, has urged his firm to target less risky investments because lenders are taking “very risky credit decisions” when financing private equity deals.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The fund management arm of Permira’s biggest investor is set to close its latest structured product on €700m, above its original target of €500m.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
The fundraising carousel remains in full swing, and limited partners are struggling to cope with the pace. With strong distributions driving new commitments, few practitioners are preparing for a slowdown. Philip Borel reports.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
A Korean court has slapped Warburg Pincus with a fine in addition to sentencing Hwang Sung-jin, the US private equity firm’s local chief to four years in prison for insider trading.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
