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 European buyout firm is set to take a 25% stake in Evonik, a German state-backed conglomerate that also reportedly interested US mega-firms KKR, Bain and Blackstone.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Fred Kindle, the chief executive that led a turnaround of publicly traded Swiss engineering firm ABB, has joined the US buyout firm’s roster of European partners. The US firm is raising a $7.5bn buyout fund, which has already held a first close on $2bn.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm’s chairman, John Snow, has said Cerberus will raise a fund dedicated to undervalued assets under distress due to current market dislocation. He also said Cerberus funds 'are open' to Chinese sovereign fund investment.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The US venture firm has asked LPs to extend partnership terms, citing an abysmal IPO environment and slowdowns in M&A and the broader economy. Those factors are ‘red flags’ for the VC market, but a fund extension is business as usual, according to the NVCA’s president.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The world’s second largest sovereign fund’s recently launched capital strategies group will also invest 5 percent of its assets in private real estate deals, but private equity is ‘not part of the investment universe’.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firms have purchased shares in Weather Investments, whose mobile phone service subsidiaries include Wind Hellas and Wind Telecomunicazioni.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Texas private equity firm has purchased ‘certain operating assets’ from the US investment bank, which was sold last week to JPMorgan.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Africa-focussed private equity shop has invested $15m in Blue Financial Services, a non-deposit taking micro lender.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Ian Blasco will help the mid-market firm deploy its debut fund, closed last year on $500m.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The State Street Private Equity Index, which draws data from more than 1,400 funds, found buyout funds’ long-term net performance to date is nearly 16 percent.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
