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.
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
Goldman Sachs’ director of media relations for the Americas, Peter Rose, is moving to Blackstone, where he’ll focus on public affairs.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ director of media relations for the Americas, Peter Rose, is moving to Blackstone, where he’ll focus on public affairs.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Blackstone Group has reportedly sent a letter to Congress that estimates the firm would lose as much as $10.5 billion of its $25 billion market value should proposed legislation regarding publicly traded partnerships become law.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
MPM Capital spin-out Clarus Ventures recently completed its largest investment to date as it moves closer toward full investment of its $500 million debut fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Mid-year profits for Swiss alternative asset manager Partners Group have risen 72 percent compared to the same period last year, while its assets grew more than 60 percent.
2 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
The Brazilian private equity firm’s $1 billion acquisition of Pride International’s Latin American Land Drilling and E&P Services businesses is the firm’s first pan-Latin American investment. It is also the first time it has used leverage, and the firm’s – as well as the region’s – largest private equity deal to date.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Blackstone has surpassed Goldman’s record for the biggest private equity fund raised to date, with the closing of its fifth fund on $21.7 billion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Dallas-based private equity firm is being sued by Accredited Home Lenders after it said Friday it may back away from its previously agreed $400 million buyout of the subprime mortgage company. Lone Star has extended the tender deadline.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
