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 US mid-market firm has purchased disposable medical products maker Coeur in its 26th deal this year. The investment was made from its fifth fund, currently raising $900m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Central and Eastern Europe-focused private equity fund has sold Hungarian e-marketplace and auction site Vatera.hu, generating a 59 percent gross IRR.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York-based mid-market firm will purchase Fine Chemicals, which makes electrolytes for lithium ion batteries in Louisiana and China. Arsenal, currently investing its $500m second fund, opened a Shanghai office earlier this year.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The charitable foundation of Jeremy Coller, founder of UK secondaries firm Coller Capital, has made a ‘multi-million pound’ commitment to help create a private equity education and research institute at London Business School.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Bahrain-headquartered investment firm has hired former Morley Fund managing director and Morgan Stanley executive James Tanner as its placement chief, a role previously filled by retiring Investcorp veteran Zahid Zakiuddin.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Ukrainian private equity firm will invest $15m in Fresh, a growing supermarket chain, from its $132m Emerging Europe growth fund. Its second Emerging Europe growth capital fund is targeting $300m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Nordic firm’s turnaround fund purchased Germany’s Pfaff Beteiligungs two years ago, and has since increased sales from $64m to nearly $90m.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
American Capital’s publicly traded European affiliate has invested in the warehouse and logistics firm just a month after the Bahrain-based bank purchased it from Sagard.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
BVCA head Simon Walker has distanced private equity’s investment strategy and remuneration scheme from investment banks and hedge funds, while speaking at a Conservative Party conference event. He also stressed the UK’s need for private equity’s vast capital reserves given current market conditions.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Simon Hitchcock will make the move to fellow UK mid-market firm Lyceum in March 2009. Lyceum has simultaneously made three investment team hires, bringing to 17 its total number of investment professionals, as it invests its £255m fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
