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 Bahrain-based bank has completed what it says is France’s largest LBO this year, a secondary deal for Compagnie Européenne de Prestations Logistiques. Sagard has exited the company in a transaction valued between €550m and €600m after receiving 21 first-round bids from groups including Doughty Hanson and Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Madrid-based infrastructure and real estate developer Accion is selling a 75 percent stake in its funeral services company, valuing the business at €330m.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Two years after purchasing Houston-based International Logging, the private equity partners have sold their interest to Weatherford International, a publicly traded oil and gas drilling services company that counts T Boone Pickens among its shareholders.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The publicly traded Canadian buyout firm expects to hold a final close on its third mega-fund in early 2009. CEO Gerald Schwartz has said despite having done no deals in the second quarter, Onex sees attractive opportunities and is not discouraged by credit conditions.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Carlyle, General Atlantic, Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone have been reported as potential buyers of Lehman Brothers divisions including its private equity arm, as the beleaguered investment bank looks to shore up its balance sheet.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US investment bank continues to enhance its private equity activities in the region, closing on one-third of the capital it is raising for a pan-Asian infrastructure fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The mid-market firm’s debut $620m fund is now 60 percent invested following the purchase of ArrMaz Custom Chemicals, which has now had three alternative investment fund sponsors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Buyout firms have long been labour union targets. As LPs fall into their sights, it would behoove public pensions to extol private equity’s advantages, writes Amanda Janis.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
A portfolio company controlled by the Michigan-based private equity firm has purchased The Institute of Medical and Dental Technology.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Japanese pharmaceutical company Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma has led a funding round for Cytochroma that included contributions from Canadian pension La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Canadian government-backed BDC Capital and four retail venture capital funds.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
