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 private equity consortium that five years ago paid $1.5 billion for Burger King continues to profit from its investment in the fast food chain. A secondary offering will raise $450 million for the firms.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The publicly listed alternative assets manager will invest in Africa’s natural resources via a joint venture with Tokyo Sexwale’s Mvelaphanda Holdings and Africa-focussed Palladino Holdings.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Two weeks after announcing its newly-formed Russian affiliate, Draper Fisher Jurvetson has established an Israel fund in conjunction with Israeli VC firm Tamir Fishman Ventures.
3 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
A $3.5 billion distressed-for-control fund was recently closed by MHR Fund Management, the New York firm led by Carl Icahn’s former chief investment advisor Mark Rachesky. It is more than three times the size of the firm’s 2002 fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
PCG spin-out StepStone will manage the State of Wisconsin Investment Board’s specialised private equity fund investments.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Axcan Pharma has agreed to be taken private by TPG in a transaction valued at $1.3 billion. It’s the firm’s third healthcare acquisition this year.
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 Carlyle Group has closed its third US-focussed fund on $605 million, bringing the 10-year-old venture arm’s total capital under management to $3.8 billion. It is the third fund the buyout giant has closed in the past four weeks.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Shareholders have approved the $27.5 billion buyout of Clear Channel by Bain and TH Lee, nine months after the consortium’s first bid was accepted.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
