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 US investment bank is continuing to strengthen its private equity team, now called Morgan Stanley Private Equity, as it raises a $6 billion debut fund just three years after spinning out its in-house PE group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR and Goldman Sachs plan to walk away from their previously agreed $8 billion buyout of Harman International Industries, claiming the audio equipment maker has had a material adverse change in its business and breached the agreement. Harman disputes the claims.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US- and Japan-focussed venture firm Globespan Capital has closed its fifth fund on $380 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Bleak economic data has sent US stock markets tumbling – taking Blackstone and Fortress along with – one day before markets close for the Thanksgiving holiday.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tom Hicks’s investment firm is the latest to partner with Greg Norman. The former golf champion will design an 18-hole course at a Patagonian resort being developed by Hicks and a local partner.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity icon Thomas H. Lee has said the credit crisis is ‘not a cash crisis’ but a crisis of confidence that will primarily affect the availability of debt financing for private equity deals valued at more than $1 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm has secured financing from Goldman’s corporate lending arm and its blockbuster mezzanine fund in order to purchase publicly-traded child care and education company Bright Horizons Family Solutions.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The buyout firm has agreed to sell American Radiology Services for $151 million to a publicly traded Canadian healthcare company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
US buyout firm TH Lee has created a credit fund with $500 million in commitments and a dedicated credit division staffed largely by ex-AIG executives, including AIGGIG’s former head of private placement, Sam Tillinghast.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Michael Devlin of Pharos Capital Group predicts the rise of business services as more Hispanic entrepreneurs turn to private equity for capital.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
