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.
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
Laurence Fink, former Blackstone partner and founder of publicly traded investment firm BlackRock, has reportedly been offered the chief executive position at Merrill Lynch. Fink is also said to be a candidate for the same job at Citi, as both US banks seek to replace CEOs in the wake of multibillion dollar write-downs.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Alliance Data Systems has dropped its case against Blackstone less than two weeks after suing the private equity firm to force an agreed $7.8 billion buyout.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Carlyle’s Mexico team has completed its first exit, with the sale of bilingual call-centre services provider Hispanic Teleservices Corporation to French company Teleperformance.
1 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
Closure of Roark Capital’s latest mid-market fund more than triples the US firm's assets under management.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm that made its name turning around the Japanese bank has returned to bail out a beleaguered Shinsei with the largest-ever private equity deal in the Japanese banking sector.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Syncom, a US venture firm that typically targets African American- and Hispanic-owned media and communications companies, has garnered $275 million from influential limited partners for its fifth fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The tech-focused Israeli firm has rounded up commitments from a heavy-hitting list of LPs, including CalPERS, HarbourVest, Portfolio Advisors and Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US’ Internal Revenue Service today said it is looking into seven areas of possible non-compliance in income tax reporting by private equity and hedge funds.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
