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James Taylor

Behind the headlines: UK PE reluctantly becomes front-page news

The media gathered in Westminster to watch MPs quiz senior buyout executives about the private equity industry’s tax and business practices.

3 min read · 28 November 2022

From the archive: Desrochers on CalPERS 2.0

As Réal Desrochers prepares to leave the California pension plan, we revisit our interview with him in 2013 after he’d overhauled CalPERS’s entire approach to private equity.

10 min read · 06 April 2017

Blake's progress

We revisit Private Equity International’s exclusive interview with pioneer of private equity law Jonathan Blake in May 2014 on the eve of SJ Berwin’s merger with KWM.

10 min read · 13 January 2017

Exclusive: Permira gets new IR chief

Philip Bassett is handing over the reins after two decades with the firm

1 min read · 16 October 2014

Exclusive: Permira gets new IR chief

Philip Bassett is handing over the reins after two decades with the firm

1 min read · 09 October 2014

LeapFrog sells stake in Kenya's Apollo

Buyer Swiss Re is also an LP in LeapFrog's recently-closed second fund

2 min read · 08 October 2014

CMBOR: European exits soar to pre-crisis levels

Exits in Europe have already topped last year’s total – whereas new buyout totals are broadly flat

2 min read · 02 October 2014

PineBridge backs Mexican first-timer

Mexican SME specialist Capital Indigo was originally targeting $60m

1 min read · 30 September 2014

Industry Ventures closes on $170m

The West Coast fund FoF was recently ranked as the best in the US

2 min read · 30 September 2014

Vista seals TIBCO mega-deal

Vista's take-private of the US software business is one of the biggest deals this year

2 min read · 29 September 2014

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