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.
KKR’s Euronext-traded affiliate has invested $167.4 million in convertible preferred stock of Japanese credit card firm Orient. It is the publicly traded vehicle’s second PIPE.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
A Cerberus-backed bid for IT outsourcing firm Affiliated Computer Services has been raised nearly 5 percent – after its board’s rejected the investors’ request to enter into exclusive negotiations.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
CEVA Logistics, an Apollo portfolio company, has offered $1.8 billion in cash for transport and logistics firm EGL. The offer, Apollo’s fourth, is a 13.2 percent premium over an agreed Centerbridge-backed bid that Apollo is trying to block with litigation.
3 min read · 03 January 2013
Dow Chemical has fired a senior executive and a board member for allegedly taking part in unauthorised discussions regarding the sale of the company. The sackings come days after a UK tabloid reported an imminent $50 billion bid for the US chemical company.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Fortress Investment will pay $2.4bn to acquire Interpool, a provider of global shipping equipment and services.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
CDW, a low-cost tech product retailer for businesses, governments and schools, is set to be acquired by Chicago-based Madison Dearborn in a $7.3 billion transaction.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Energy-focused Natural Gas Partners is set to acquire the power production and development businesses of MDU Resources Group for $636 million.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
As Texas legislators consider giving the state’s Public Utility Commission power to block the proposed $45 billion buyout of TXU, KKR and TPG have promised to terminate an existing labour subcontracting agreement at the utility company, which has in turn put the electrical workers union in their corner.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Investment bank Goldman Sachs has raised $20 billion for its sixth buyout fund, the first firm ever to reach this mark - although rival private equity groups are reportedly closing in on even larger totals.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Middle market firm Littlejohn & Co. has agreed to take private Van Houtte, a gourmet coffee roasting company, for C$600 million. It’s the second Canadian company the US firm has agreed to buy in the last week.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
