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 European buyout firm has appointed David Wood, Deutsche Bank’s former co-head of leveraged finance.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
The intense rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge universities has spilled over into the alternative investment field. Andy Thomson reports.
3 min read · 31 December 2012
The UK lower mid-market private equity firm has promoted two of its team to the position of director and one to investment manager.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
A new EC Directive is likely to make extensive and costly demands. By Andy Thomson.
3 min read · 31 December 2012
AnaCap Financial Partners, a new pan-European private equity firm focusing on the financial services sector, has raised an oversubscribed €300m vehicle.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
The New York-based LBO giant is to pay €2.68bn to buy a minority stake in Germany’s largest telecoms group.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
ViaNova Capital, the London-based firm attempting to raise a debut ‘low-fee’ private equity fund of funds, has seen Edward Gander, one of its four co-founders, quit the fledgling firm.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
The flotation of the private equity-backed French electrical equipment maker forced a temporary suspension of the Euronext Paris market today amid frenzied demand for shares.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
ABN AMRO Capital has agreed the sale of Netherlands-based RTD Group to Applus, a Spanish testing firm.
1 min read · 31 December 2012
A new vehicle established by the French subsidiary of global private equity firm Apax Partners has raised gross proceeds of just over €114m from its IPO on Euronext Paris.
2 min read · 31 December 2012
