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.
Venture firm Highland Capital has closed a $300 million, retail- and consumer-focused fund, which will be led by Staples co-founder Tom Stemberg and Ted Philip, a founding member of search engine and web portal Lycos.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR’s first Asia-dedicated fund is set to close soon with $4 billion of commitments, according to a SEC filing ahead of its $1.25 billion initial public offering.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
As private equity’s tax treatment continues to be examined on Capitol Hill, two congressmen have asked the Federal Communications Commission to analyse private equity deals in the telecom and media industries.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Second quarter profit climbed 77 percent for Citi’s Alternative Investments arm, which invests in private equity, hedge funds and other alternative asset classes.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Increasing the tax applied to carried interest could damage entrepreneurship and stifle America’s capital markets and competitiveness, according to the majority of witnesses and Senators at the US Senate Finance Committee’s first hearing on carried interest.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The San Francisco-based private equity firm has closed its seventh, energy-focused fund with $1.35 billion in commitments – nearly double the size of its previous fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Chemical company Huntsman has terminated its merger agreement with businessman Len Blavatnkik’s firm and accepted a $10.6 billion bid from Apollo.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The San Francisco-based private equity firm has closed its seventh, energy-focused fund with $1.35 billion in commitments – nearly double the size of its previous fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System has approved nearly $60 million in new commitments, $30 million of which is earmarked for Advent’s latest Latin American fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Chicago-based mid-market firm The Edgewater Funds has formed an alliance with former chemical industry executives to acquire chemical portfolio companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
