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.
Australia’s largest-ever buyout, which was completed in June, has come under scrutiny by regulators following a complaint about the way the UBS auction was conducted.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The Japan-focused private equity house has acquired OCC Corporation, a cable systems company, from the IRCJ, the state-backed corporate rescue organisation.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Private equity professionals participating in carried interest schemes are rarely provided with estimates of the likely size of any incentivisation package.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Parques Reunidos, a Spanish theme park operator, has made a French firm its fourth overseas acquisition since being acquired by Advent International two and a half years ago.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The UK lower mid-market private equity firm has closed its Gresham 4 fund on £340m. The fund was oversubscribed and hard capped.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Europe’s private equity industry is heading into choppier waters, according to a leading academic.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Consumer sector specialist Neil Sutton is replacing Graeme Pike as head of the financial services group’s UK deal advisory effort.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Byeon Yang-ho, managing director and founder of South Korean buyout fund Vogo, is the latest private equity professional to feel the heat from the country’s authorities.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
The French publisher has been acquired from private equity firm Sagard by London-based Bridgepoint in a tertiary buyout.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Jun Tsusaka, a veteran private equity investor and investment banker, has joined US-based buyout firm Texas Pacific Group to head up its Japanese activities from Tokyo.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
