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.
A portfolio company owned by the two Canadian private equity firms will pay $195m for Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, two US cartoon properties wildly popular in the 1980s. The deal also includes the acquisition of Sushi Pack, a Saturday morning cartoon, and DIC Entertainment.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Advent International has purchased the UK healthcare group from LGV Capital after watching the company for 'over seven years'. LGV acquired the business for £200m from a Warburg Pincus-anchored group in 2001.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The state’s $154.5bn Common Retirement Fund, the US' third largest public pension, has joined a growing list of heavy-hitting LPs lining up for a fund targeting as much as $20bn.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The two funds have offered to buy all outstanding shares of TransAlta, a Canadian energy company that recently sold assets to an AIG- and Teachers’ Private Capital-backed portfolio company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The smaller mid-market shop has again closed a fund that was more than two times oversubscribed, more than doubling the size of its previous fund as well as capital under management.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm beat its combined target of $6.5bn for the two funds. It is the first time Lone Star has raised separate, side-by-side funds for each investment strategy.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Africa-focussed firm made proceeds of some $99m in a private placement preceding Starcomms’ listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Emerging markets focussed-Actis also exited its investment in the company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK’s Railpen, Denmark’s PFA pension, and The Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund were among the limited partners that committed to the fund of funds.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The fund exceeded its $200m target after six months in the market. It will focus on lower- and mid-market oil field services deals, a niche the firm’s managing partners say is overlooked by other private equity firms making energy plays.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The $38bn public pension has approved a tactical plan that emphasises a need for geographic diversity as it moves closer to its 8 percent target allocation for private equity.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
