The New York firm has asked Macquarie Securities' Trent Vichie to lead its newly unveiled developed-infrastructure business. Vichie, an Australian national, was instrumental in the Chicago Skyway transaction, a landmark US toll road privatisation.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
All the arguments have ended, it would seem, and the multi-asset-class business model has won, writes David Snow.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The California bank, which was taken over by the government earlier this month, approached several private equity firms in search of rescue capital but found no takers.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Hedge funds scrambling to get out of the private equity business will be a boon for secondaries firms, writes David Snow.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Rio-based powerhouse, led by Brazil's former central bank chief, now has $2.7bn earmarked for ‘illiquid’ deals.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The listed global private equity powerhouse will begin courting healthcare investment specialists, having invested some $1.5bn in healthcare companies over the past year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Six months after closing a $3.6bn fund, the New York buyout firm has agreed to buy Harvey Gulf International Marine, which provides services to the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
After just four months, the veteran New York private equity firm has drawn significant investor commitments for its eleventh fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The global financial services firm will acquire control of the India-focussed fund of funds business of San Francisco investment bank Thomas Weisel.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
An Ernst & Young study charting 100 recent exits finds that private equity-backed companies gain value at double the rate of public-company counterparts, statistics that will bolster claims that the private equity ownership model is superior to that of public ownership.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
