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.
Helix Associates, the private equity placement agent division of Jefferies Investment Bank, has hired the former co-head of Credit Suisse’s Private Fund Group, Robert Rivett, as well as Stephen Gray, former managing director at corporate advisory firm Henniker River Advisors.
2 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
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 Los Angeles firm’s most recent investment involves a company founded by ‘one of the divas of the scrapbooking space’.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Gores Group-spin out has closed its second fund after less than three months in the market.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Computer network company 3Com will be taken private by Bain Capital in partnership with Chinese networking group Huawei.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Shares in Blackstone and Fortress hit new lows today following analyst downgrades, while American Capital announced a $500m programme to repurchase shares trading below net asset value.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
In the latest example of a private equity firm acquiring a Canadian income trust following a change to Canada's tax policy, Sentinel will pay $57 million to reacquire yarn company Spinrite.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US investment bank Lehman Brothers has closed its fifth venture fund on $365 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity division of PNC Financial has made its first investments from its second fund with the purchase of delivery company Lone Star Overnight and gas detection equipment manufacturer Bacharach.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
