As a result of the financial crisis, investors may focus even more closely on the quality of GP reporting. And that's good news for private equity administration specialists in Asia, Andy Thomson discovers.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Despite chaos in world markets, participants at PEI's inaugural India Forum in Mumbai argued that the asset class would not only weather the storm, but emerge stronger.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The UK and the Netherlands have both reacted to public criticism of the private equity industry by passing new tax legislation
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Twenty years after the record-setting buyout of RJR Nabisco, the deal still stands as a prime example of private equity operating at extreme capacity. Will mega-LBOs of 2006 and 2007 be as influential? And will they, like RJR Nabisco, ultimately disappoint? David Snow compares two bygone boom eras
5 min read · 12 January 2013
The repercussions of the financial turmoil will be profound, say Roberto Paganoni and Ivan Vercoutere of Swiss private equity and hedge fund manager LGT Capital Partners. But does this mean some sort of doomsday reckoning for private equity? Far from it, they insist: the asset class may even emerge from a testing period with its reputation enhanced. By Andy Thomson
10 min read · 12 January 2013
How a KKR and TPG consortium lost a bidding war withWarren Buffett for a US utility – despite offering $1.5bn more
6 min read · 12 January 2013
NORTH AMERICA NEWS CONTINUED<br/>FUNDS AND BUYSIDE 2008-11-01 Staff Writer Paladin Capital Group has closed its third <bold>homeland-security</bold> fund on $340 million. The Washington DC firm is led by former CIA head James Woolsey, as well as a former director of the US National Security
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Jürgen Borchers and Lars Körner of Cologne-based funds of funds manager CAM Private Equity explain the benefits of a private equity-focussed risk management model
5 min read · 12 January 2013
The Iberian private equity market was fast establishing itself as a part of the European mainstream when the clouds of the credit crunch started to gather. Toby Mitchenall reports on whether it has the strength which might see it through
7 min read · 12 January 2013
The financial storm of the past two months has shaken the global financial system to its core. Matt Levin met three leading private equity financial services investors to ask what it will mean for the industry
10 min read · 12 January 2013
