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.
The world’s largest home improvement retailer is evaluating a sale, spin-off, or initial public offering of its $12bn revenue wholesale distribution business, HD Supply.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US mobile phone service provider MetroPCS has raised $1.15 billion in its initial public offering – the largest amount raised so far by a US IPO this year and an exit for which some of its investors waited more than a decade.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Monte Brem, the former president of gatekeeper Pacific Corporate Group, has founded a competing firm in California with two other ex-PCG executives.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity firms Lake Capital and Stephens Group have purchased a majority stake in specialised marketing firm Vestcom from Cornerstone Equity Solutions and Vestcom’s management.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Sun Capital’s recently established Japanese affiliate has completed its first deal with the acquisition of “Fruit Jelly” snack maker Tarami.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The US’ largest labour union has issued a scathing report on buyouts, and challenged the private equity industry to reduce income inequality and ‘restore promise in the American Dream’ – prompting a response from the Private Equity Council.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Anne Gordon has resigned as managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer to join New York private equity firm Dubilier & Co.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Clear Channel’s board has rejected a 0.5 percent higher bid for the media giant from TH Lee and Bain Capital, saying it would delay next week’s shareholder vote on the buyout. Two weeks ago, the private equity firms upped their bid by 4 percent and had said that was their ‘best and final offer’.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Defense-focused private equity firm JF Lehman is set to acquire BAE Systems’ Inertial Products business for $140 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
New York-based Crestview Partners, a Goldman Sachs spin-out, has agreed to acquire Symbion, a US operator of short stay surgical facilities, for $637 million.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
