Andy Thomson is a Senior Editor at PEI with responsibility for Private Debt Investor, the leading title focused on the world's private debt markets. Andy works closely with team members in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has been with PEI for many years, having worked previously on Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.
The Spanish buyout firm has teamed with The Carlyle Group to buy web hosting firm Arsys for €160m – in the process avoiding the kind of competitive auction that proved unproductive for the firm this year.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity's trials and tribulations this year are far from the end of the world, writes Andy Thomson.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
As buyout firms attempt to vaccinate themselves against the numerous viruses floating around the financial system, are they wise to be investing in healthcare, asks Andy Thomson.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
Banks and investment groups may have found a cure for debt indigestion in the form of the hung bridge fund. By Andy Thomson, editor Private Equity International
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US lower mid-market private equity firm has extended its reach in Europe with new bases in France and Germany highlighting renewed interest in the lower mid-market.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
A UK provider of specialist long-term healthcare has completed its second refinancing since being acquired by Legal & General Ventures six years ago.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The London-based fund of funds manager has added to its fund selection teams in London and Boston.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Serkan Elden has returned to AIG Investments to spearhead its investment activities in Turkey, having left the firm after a six-year spell in 2004.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Helsinki-listed alternative asset manager has beefed up its management group and created new internal services and investor services units.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Lehman Brothers’ private equity arm has hit its $500m fundraising target for a listed fund of funds despite planned flotations of other alternative asset vehicles being knocked off course.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
