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.
Global Capital Management, a subsidiary of Kuwaiti investment bank Global Investment House, has held a first close on its MENA fund with more than $500 million in commitments.
2 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 New York performing arts school has hired David Marcus, a 10-year investment veteran at Dartmouth’s endowment, as its second-ever investment director.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Sam Zell-led firm has closed its largest-ever fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The publicly listed KKR affiliate has agreed to swap $3.5 billion in debt for assets with its asset-backed commercial paper issuers. It will also sell a controlling interest in its REIT subsidiary to Rock Capital 2 and has proposed a rights offering of 20 million shares for ‘general corporate purposes’.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Bill Richardson is the latest Democratic Presidential candidate to join the carried interest debate on Capitol Hill – but unlike his peers, he does not endorse the tax-raising proposals carte blanche.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Weeks after opening a Romanian office and co-launching a €150m fund of funds, the Icelandic investment bank has reportedly said it will partner with Nikhil Gandhi’s Sea King Infrastructure on a $500 million private equity fund.
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 Gores Group-spin out has closed its second fund after less than three months in the market.
1 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
