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.
After three years at Morgan Stanley spin-out Metalmark, Eric Fry has been appointed partner at the investment bank’s new private equity arm. Meanwhile, Morgan Stanley Private Equity’s London team has hired former Allianz Capital pro Michael Hehn.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The US investment bank will use its own capital, in the form of subordinated debt, to back show business-related investments as well as digital media start-ups.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
An antitrust lawsuit alleging that KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle, Bain and nine other buyout groups fixed bids relating to club deals has been dismissed, though the plaintiffs are permitted to file a new suit with the same claim.
1 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
Former NBA star Magic Johnson has endorsed a group created to oppose a House bill that would increase carried interest tax. Formation of the opposition group comes just one day before the House Ways and Means Committee is due to discuss private equity-related taxes.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Have legislators in the US and UK closed the book on changes to carried interest taxation? A trio of tax experts provides PEO with perspective on the latest Capitol Hill and Westminster developments.
5 min read · 04 January 2013
The educational publishing house has agreed to sell its college-related arm to the consortium, which will add it on to Cengage, the former Thomson Learning division it acquired in July for $8 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KKR has refuted a UK media report that the buyout firm has postponed its planned $1.25 billion IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The private equity firm has agreed to buy $500 million in common shares of MBIA Insurance, and has backstopped an additional $500 million for a shareholder rights offering to be held in the first quarter of 2008.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
PEO interviews Robert Greenwald, the creator of a new series of short films criticising private equity, following an earlier PEO commentary about his 'The War on Greed' series.
7 min read · 04 January 2013
