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.
Canadian fund of funds manager Kensington Capital has raised $22.7 million in an IPO for its latest fund of funds, the first of its kind in Canada.
3 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
America’s largest labour union has sent out email blasts and established blogs pertaining to private equity deals it finds troubling – the action follows last week’s issuance of a buyout report and launch of an associated website.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
San Francisco-headquartered Hellman & Friedman has closed its sixth fund on $8.4 billion, days after announcing massive profits from the sale of DoubleClick.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US private equity firm TPG is exploring the possible sale of a minority stake in the firm to major state pension funds.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
A member of New York private equity firm Welsh Carson’s investor relations team, Susan Balloch, has joined Blackstone’s private equity group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Battery Ventures has hired away two tech industry professionals, VeriSign’s Matt Niehaus and Google’s Satya Patel.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ private equity arm has agreed to acquire polymer products manufacturer Myers Industries for $1 billion, days after the firm closed a record-breaking $20 billion fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Boca Raton, Florida-based turnaround private equity firm has closed its sixth fund on $6 billion – a 300 percent increase over its previous fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Venrock, the venture capital firm originally established by the Rockefeller family, has closed a new fund on $600 million and hired David Siminoff as a general partner.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
