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Amanda Janis

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.

ICG raises more than €1bn for LBO debt

The firm’s ‘recovery fund’ will target the more than €240bn in European buyout-related debt that will need to be repaid or refinanced in the next two to six years.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Advent holds $1.65bn fund close

The firm’s fifth Latin American vehicle takes the title for the region’s largest private equity fund raised to date.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Madison Dearborn seals $915m take-private

The Chicago-based private equity firm – reportedly close to closing Fund VI – will pay $485m in cash for BWAY, an NYSE-listed plastic container manufacturer.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

MENASA private equity ‘is not McDonald’s’

The mega-LBO model developed in Western private equity markets doesn't necessarily fit emerging markets, according to speakers at PEI's Middle East Forum.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Why 2009 wasn’t the ‘year of secondaries’

A staggering amount of capital was raised for secondaries last year, but the surge in deal activity many expected didn't follow suit.

3 min read · 05 January 2013

Public healing

SVG Capital’s upbeat earnings results provided significant evidence that portfolio valuations are rising - and that both investor and fund manager sentiment is improving.

3 min read · 05 January 2013

3i mulls secondary play with £500m HBoS deal

The listed firm is expected to again team with Coller Capital to spin out a portfolio, but the potential transaction would see 3i become the manager of the assets in play rather than the seller.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Encore reaps 3x with healthcare exit

DFJ Esprit’s VC secondaries arm, which is backed by Coller and HarbourVest, has sold a medical device company for $330m.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Bain buys Dow Chemical unit for $1.6bn

The private equity firm has done four deals in 2010, with its second mega-deal of the year resulting from an auction that reportedly included TPG and Apollo.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Carlyle leads $550m offshore bank deal

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Wellcome Trust are among the investors now backing Butterfield & Son, Bermuda's first-ever bank.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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