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.
Henry Kravis and David Bonderman addressed Texas legislators’ concerns over their firms’ proposed $45 billion buyout of US utility TXU, as rival private equity firms are reportedly close to submitting a competing bid.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Middle-market buyout firm Genstar Capital has expanded its team of operating partners with the appointment of CD&R alum Edmund Carpenter.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
John Leone has joined the US-based firm’s healthcare team, which recently lost three partners to Cowen Group’s new healthcare royalty group.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
New York-headquartered Vestar Capital has named Patrick Shattenkirk head of the firm’s investor relations.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Robert Jackowitz has been hired as chief financial officer for the New York-based private equity group led by former Warburg Pincus vice chairman, Howard Newman.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The global investment bank’s chief executive has confirmed the firm’s private equity arm will target a $20 billion fundraising.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The Silicon Valley venture firm, renown for backing tech startups like eBay and Second Life, has hired former Electronic Arts vice president Mitch Lasky as its eighth partner.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Silicon Valley venture firm has raised $435m for its ninth fund, on the way to a reported $600m target.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
US prosecutors and the SEC are reportedly readying charges against the former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman, who later founded Heartland Industrial Partners following a stint at Blackstone.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Waltham, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm has closed its fourth fund, and recently added a new general partner, Elliot Katzman, to its team of 8 investment professionals.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
