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.
Tony James, the US company’s president and chief operating officer, outlined its strategy to capitalise on tougher debt markets, including smaller deals and distressed debt investing, and warned that the credit environment may have a short-term negative impact on fees.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
CVC has purchased from Code Hennessy & Simmons a $400 million controlling stake in Waddington North America, a provider of disposable foodservice products including cutlery and takeout containers.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
A US conglomerate will buy Bain Capital portfolio company SigmaKalon in a €2.2 billion transaction. The US buyout firm is believed to have paid roughly €1 billion for the Dutch paint company in 2003.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Boston Ventures is to buy a local US cable and telecom company, marking the middle market firm’s fifth investment from its seventh, $500 million fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
As Canada’s venture capital investments suffered a 12 percent year-over decline in the second quarter, private equity deals surged to a record C$55.6 billion, well outperforming last year’s total deal volume of C$11.6 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Five weeks after shareholders approved the C$49 billion BCE buyout, the largest proposed LBO to date, Teachers, Providence and Madison Dearborn have agreed to sell a C$475 million stake in the Canadian telecom to Merrill Lynch.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
US investment bank Lehman Brothers has reportedly hired Jeb Bush, the US President’s brother, to advise its private equity business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Citicorp Venture Capital has purchased regional US soft drink company Big Red for an undisclosed amount.
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
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
