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.
Chicago bank PrivateBancorp has rounded up $200 million for a private placement led by hometown buyout firm GTCR Golder Rauner.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Two Congressional committees will hold hearings on private equity ownership of nursing homes tomorrow; a REIT executive is the only private finance industry representative scheduled to testify.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
A witness panel largely in opposition to private equity ownership of nursing homes appeared today before the US House of Representatives’ Health Subcommittee, which was not convinced the buyout industry is the key to increasing care quality.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Hellman & Friedman will purchase a 30 percent stake in Paris-based Gaztransport & Technigaz, which builds ship storage and transport systems for liquefied natural gas.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
If the buyout boom has gone bust, why are GPs seeking some $615 billion in fresh powder? asks Amanda Janis.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Uncertainty over whether Thoma Cressey Bravo would completely split or raise separate, sector-focussed funds under one roof has been erased with the appointment of former US Senate majority leader Bill Frist to the newly formed Cressey & Company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The House of Representatives has narrowly passed a bill that aims to raises taxes on private equity and hedge fund managers by roughly $48 billion. The bill now heads to the Senate, and if approved, is likely to be vetoed by President Bush.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The public pension has set criteria for three of the four components making up its inflation-linked asset class, but said infrastructure policy will be considered later as it is the ‘most complex’.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Cerberus is joining KKR, Goldman Sachs and JC Flowers to become the latest buyout firm to walk away from a megadeal agreed before the liquidity crisis.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US retailer Restoration Hardware has agreed to a $267 million buyout by consumer-focussed private equity firm Catterton Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
