Private equity demand for management talent working with portfolio companies on an interim basis is on the rise, says Valeria Vescina.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
A private equity syndicate led by Newbridge Capital is reported to be close to acquiring a one third stake in Japan’s leading consumer finance group.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Market economies don't come much more turbulent than Russia's. To a growing number of private equity practitioners though, therein lies part of its attractiveness. In the wake of a major terrorist attack and a constriction of government controls, general partners active in the country tell Art Janik that Russian risk remains worth taking
10 min read · 12 January 2013
The new head of CalPERS' $20 billion private equity programme plans to expand from the powerful platform he built alongside his former boss, Rick Hayes. David Snow visited Leon Shahinian at 400 P Street to learn more about the tastes, ambitions and challenges of this Sacramento native
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity firms are making inroads into Germany's corporate debt markets
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Delta Capital Management, manager of the US Russia Investment Fund, has sold Russian consumer bank DeltaBank to GE Consumer Finance for a reported $100m.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Having spent over three decades in the industry, Sir Robert Smith is a big name in UK private equity. Now retired (well, kind of), a recent non-executive appointment to the board of directors of 3i Plc means the veteran dealmaker is about to return to the action. Here he talks to Philip Borel about where British private equity came from and where it is going
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Distressed investors are hungrily eyeing the many second-lien loans taken out by US private equity sponsors. Deal Mechanic presents the vulture view
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Japan still has a reputation for seeing private equity as at best a necessary evil – but recent developments indicate perceptions may be changing
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Richard Nevins, co-head of the restructuring advisory team at US investment bank Jefferies International, has relocated to London to spearhead the firm’s push into the European market.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
