Amanda is the Director of Product Management for PEI, whose editorial titles include Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Buyouts, PE Hub, VCJ, Real Estate Capital, Private Equity Real Estate, Agri Investor, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Private Funds CFO. She was previously the company's Group Managing Editor.
GI Partners purchased a controlling stake in St. Helena, California-based Duckhorn Wine Company, whose labels include Duckhorn, Paraduxx and Goldeneye. Wine industry sources estimate the price paid in the $250 million range.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR and Goldman Sachs plan to walk away from their previously agreed $8 billion buyout of Harman International Industries, claiming the audio equipment maker has had a material adverse change in its business and breached the agreement. Harman disputes the claims.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US pension giant CalPERS has launched a €400 million, Europe-focussed buyout initiative, to be managed by the private equity division of Scotland-based investment manager Standard Life Investments Group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Senate Finance Committee’s second inquiry into carried interest featured witnesses who support and oppose the carried interest designation as capital gains, including one who compared current carried interest tax policy to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison incident of the Iraq War.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Set to bolster its pharmaceuticals portfolio, Blackstone has agreed to make a $500 million minority investment in Florida-based Stiefel Laboratories.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Robert Bass-led firm has strengthened its aerospace portfolio with the acquisition of air cargo company Southern Air. The deal puts the firm on track to own 22 freight aircraft.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Robert Bass-led firm has strengthened its aerospace portfolio with the acquisition of air cargo company Southern Air. The deal puts the firm on track to own 22 freight aircraft.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Brazilian private equity firm’s $1 billion acquisition of Pride International’s Latin American Land Drilling and E&P Services businesses is the firm’s first pan-Latin American investment. It is also the first time it has used leverage, and the firm’s – as well as the region’s – largest private equity deal to date.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
As legislators continue to speak out for and against proposed legislation that would raise taxes on private equity’s publicly traded partnerships and carried interest, President Bush has said he will veto tax-raising bills.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Blackstone has surpassed Goldman’s record for the biggest private equity fund raised to date, with the closing of its fifth fund on $21.7 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
