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.
Puerto Rico-based financial services firm Doral Financial has said it needs a cash infusion of $700 million to $800 million and is in ‘active negotiations’ with an unnamed private equity firm.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Clear Channel is selling a group of 54 television stations to Providence Equity Partners for $1.2 billion. The media giant is also in agreements to sell 161 radio stations for $331 million.
2 min read · 03 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 · 03 January 2013
Investment bank Challenger Capital Group has merged with Foxbridge Partners, a middle market private equity firm established last year.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
MidOcean Partners has acquired The Hunter Fan Company from Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking Group.
1 min read · 03 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 · 03 January 2013
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe has sold AmeriPath for $2 billion; it took the cancer and genomics diagnostics company private in 2003 in a transaction valued at $839.4 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
San Francisco-based buyout shop Hellman & Friedman has sold digital marketing firm DoubleClick to internet behemoth Google for $3.1 billion – two years after having taken the firm private for $1.1 billion.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Apax Partners and Morgan Stanley Principal Investments have increased their offer for Hub International, as they look to ward off the threat of a competing bid.
1 min read · 03 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 · 03 January 2013