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.
Grupo Gayosso, Mexico’s largest funeral services company, has been acquired by Advent International in a transaction valued at $317 million, including $40 million in subordinated debt.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The head of Roustan Capital has teamed up with Jerome Kohlberg’s investment firm to purchase non-core Nike division Bauer Hockey.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Growth stage-focussed Technology Crossover Ventures has closed its seventh fund on $3 billion, causing Oak Investment Partners to lose the record for the largest fund ever raised by a VC firm.
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
Robert Wright, GE’s vice chairman and former head of NBC Universal, is the second titan of industry Thomas H. Lee has hired to advise his private equity firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Goldman Sachs, Sequoia China, Farrallon and New Horizon are among the firms that have contributed $83 million in ‘strategic equity’ for Skyflying Media, a record financing round for China’s outdoor advertising sector.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout firm Providence Equity Partners has purchased $300 million-worth of convertible preferred stock in ZeniMax Media, maker of massively multiplayer online games including Fallout.
1 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
Silver Lake’s middle-market technology fund, currently reported to be raising an inaugural $1 billion, has done its first deal with the acquisition of mobile phone marketing company Mobile Messenger.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Two years after closing a $180 million fund shy of its target, the Hong Kong-headquartered firm’s fourth fund has closed above target at its hard cap.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
