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.
Carlyle is set to become the latest private equity firm with shares of an affiliate, Guernsey-based investment company listed on Amsterdam’s Euronext exchange. It has already raised $600 million for the vehicle, and expects the public offering to raise an additional $400 million.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Equipment rental company RSC Holdings, purchased last year by Ripplewood and Oak Hill, raised $458 million in an initial public offering; the 20.3 million share offering raised less than expected, and the company’s stock has been trading below the IPO’s $22 per share price.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
California venture capital firm Emergence has closed its second, online software-focused fund on $200 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
TH Lee and Fidelity have teamed up again to buy a business services provider, inking a $5.3 billion deal for Ceridian, a company in the trendy payment processing space.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US middle market buyout shop Olympus has closed its fifth fund on $1.5 billion.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US alternative asset manager Oaktree Capital is to list 13 percent of itself on a private market being developed by investment bank Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US regional wireless carrier Alltel is reportedly in meetings with at least three groupings of major private equity firms: Blackstone and Providence, TPG and Goldman Sachs, and Carlyle and KKR.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Menlo Park, California-based Institutional Venture Partners has closed a $600 million fund – twice the size of its previous fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Two former US Treasury secretaries have joined the mounting criticism of carried interest’s tax treatment. ‘o one would want to defend’ GP carry tax status, Lawrence Summers said.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Activity in the electronic payment space continues with the Blackstone Group’s agreement to buy Dallas, Texas-based Alliance Data, a provider of transaction, credit, and marketing services, in a deal valued at $7.8 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
