Specialist credit funds have revolutionised the leveraged loan market. But could this mean trouble for the private equity industry when things start to go wrong? James Taylor and Andy Thomson report.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Andy Thomson looks at why European debt providers may increasingly have to accept losing influence over private equity's portfolio companies.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Esprit Capital Partners has sold its stake in fraud software business Neteconomy, as it hits the exit trail ahead of another fundraising round.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The current debate about private equity in Europe is important, but to be productive it needs to be properly reasoned.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Investors in private equity funds must get comfortable about the economics of the partnership. In today's market place, are managers being overcompensated, ask Oliver Gottschalg, Bernd Kreuter and Ludovic Phalippou.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
A study of the corporation tax bills of the ten biggest private equity backed firms in the UK has revealed that, between them, they actually depleted the Treasury’s coffers last year.
2 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
David Goret becomes senior managing director at the New Jersey-based alternative asset manager.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Carlyle hires for MENA push * Merrill Lynch to expand Asia financial sponsor coverage * Former ANZ Capital director sets up own firm * SAC hires private equity team * Gulf Finance House reorganises private equity * Oaktree Capital installs Asia chairman * Blackstone opens in Hong Kong
4 min read · 12 January 2013
PEI Asia takes a look at some of the key movers and shakers in South Korean private equity.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
