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.
The 10th largest public US pension has said a group of large institutional investors, including a sovereign wealth fund, are discussing how best to group together to obtain more favourable deal terms. The LPs are also reportedly conferring on investments in private equity firm franchises.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Puget Sound Energy, Washington state’s largest utility company, will be taken private in a $7.4 billion transaction by a consortium including Macquarie, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation.
2 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 firm with deep defence expertise is in talks to purchase Booz Allen Hamilton’s government consulting business.
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
The US’ second-largest pension fund is seeking three region-specific advisors for its alternatives portfolio as its investments increasingly target geographies other than the US and Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR and Goldman Sachs have struck a $400 million deal allowing them to terminate their agreed $8 billion buyout of Harman International Industries without litigation or paying a breakup fee to the audio equipment maker.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Private Equity Council, National Venture Capital Association, International Council of Shopping Centers and many Republican lawmakers have come out in opposition to legislation introduced yesterday that would significantly increase US taxes for alternative investment fund managers.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Chuck Grassley and Max Baucus, the Senate Finance Committee members considering carried interest taxation and tax on publicly traded financial partnerships, are investigating patient care at private equity-owned nursing homes.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
The highly anticipated secondary market sell-off of a portion of CalPERS’ massive private equity portfolio has begun, with publicly traded Conversus acquiring $200 million in mostly special-situation fund interests. Oak Hill and three other firms also purchased fund interests, details of which remain opaque even to secondary market insiders.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
