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 new tax on carried interest would be ‘a lot bigger than just private equity’, according to Phillips Hinch, a tax specialist with the US Chamber of Commerce, which recently released the second half of its study on proposed policy changes to carried interest taxation. Hinch tells PEO why the chamber opposes a change to carried-interest tax policy.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Bahrain’s Ithmaar Bank, Shamil Bank and the Islamic Investment Company have held a first close on their mutli-strategy private equity fund targeting $500 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
In the latest example of a private equity firm acquiring a Canadian income trust following a change to Canada's tax policy, Sentinel will pay $57 million to reacquire yarn company Spinrite.
2 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 Credit Suisse affiliate has made its third waste industry investment with the acquisition of Deffenbaugh Industries, a waste services company in the Midwestern US.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Axcan Pharma has agreed to be taken private by TPG in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion. It’s the firm’s third healthcare acquisition this year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
A new tax on carried interest would be ‘a lot bigger than just private equity’, according to Phillips Hinch, a tax specialist with the US Chamber of Commerce, which recently released the second half of its study on proposed policy changes to carried interest taxation. Hinch tells PEO why the chamber opposes a change to carried-interest tax policy.
3 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
The private equity consortium that five years ago paid $1.5 billion for Burger King continues to profit from its investment in the fast food chain. A secondary offering will raise $450 million for the firms.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Credit Suisse affiliate has made its third waste industry investment with the acquisition of Deffenbaugh Industries, a waste services company in the Midwestern US.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
