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.
Russell Read looks to become an environmental rainmaker after a two-year stint at the $244bn US pension.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Biotech and medical device deals represented 32 percent of investments during the first quarter, which saw an approximate 5 percent drop in investment dollars from the same period in 2007.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Good companies with bad balance sheets and strategies outside the LBO box provide opportunities galore, said firm co-founder Leon Black at the Milken Institute's ongoing conference in Los Angeles.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The country’s private equity industry is helping the region close the gap between Latin America and Asia, market participants said yesterday at an ABVCAP conference in Rio de Janeiro.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Unable to negotiate a new deal that would allay US regulatory concerns over national security threats, Bain has called off its buyout of the data networking company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Political activist and documentarian Robert Greenwald again makes Henry Kravis the focus of his anti-LBO campaign, this time in animated form because ‘fun can go a long way’.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The California assemblyman who wants CalPERS and CalSTRS to cease ties with firms partially owned by certain sovereign wealth funds tells PEO he is particularly targeting alleged human rights abuses in the UAE, and calls fiscal objections voiced by pension investment staff ‘overstated'.
6 min read · 04 January 2013
The energy-focussed private equity firm is the latest buyout shop to invest in Cobalt International Energy, a company that last year received $500 million from Riverstone and Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US firm finds its $700m fund already oversubscribed after just a few weeks in the market. Meanwhile, $16.8bn in debt tied to its BCE deal is reportedly among the LBO loans lenders hope to sell to buyout firms.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The veteran VC firm’s Dallas partners will soon raise the firm’s 10th fund, while its California partners will ‘pursue other investing paths’, according to a letter sent to investors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
