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.
John Barber, head of the financial services firm’s longest-standing in-house private equity arm, will leave the firm. It is the latest in a long string of changes to Citi’s alternative investment platform, which currently includes three active private equity groups.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Keith Jones is now a senior advisor for Permira’s financial services team, which is led by James Fraser and will increasingly look to target wealth management assets in play.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firm first backed Racal Acoustics in a £52m management buyout from US private equity firm JF Lehman & Co in 2005.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Dubai-based investment bank says it will avoid regulatory conflicts from a dual listing, as well as boost liquidity and trading volume by remaining traded only in Dubai.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Japanese brokerage had reportedly hoped to team with Blackstone to form an Asian mega-fund, but will instead raise its own funds targeting ¥20bn to ¥30bn.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm will also cut management fees across the board and has promised not to call more than 30% of LPs’ total commitment next year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Chairman Jens Reidel has stepped down as part of a planned retirement process, handing co-chairman roles to managing partners Francesco Loredan and Raymond Svider. Next month John Hosgood, Barclays’ former co-head of leveraged finance, will join the firm to lead a push into credit strategies that will be largely focused on purchasing debt in its own deals.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Paris-headquartered private equity firm has opened two new locations this year on the heels of closing its €1.6bn Fund IV.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
As the mid-market firm deploys its €2.4bn Fund III, its parent has considered spinning out the private equity arm as well as potential sales of interests in its existing funds.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-based fabless semiconductor company has now raised roughly $200m from firms including Balderton, Accel, Amadeus and 3i.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
