The private equity firms reportedly considered bidding for the beleaguered investment bank, but were ultimately uninterested or unable to put together a deal in time to compete with JPMorgan.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The First Chicago Equity spin-off has sold a controlling interest to Richard Kiphart investment group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Kathie Painter will join the firm’s London office.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Marathon Acquisition, headed by former Apollo exec Michael Gross, will buy a majority stake in Global Ship Lease, part of a growing trend of private equity execs drifting toward SPACS.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Looking to capitalise on post-Asian financial crisis recovery, the Indonesia-based firm has raised more than $30 million so far for its Southeast Asian fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
London-based Generation Investment Management will invest its Climate Solutions Fund in private and public companies dedicated to solving global warming.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Nearly double the size of its predecessor, the fund has already been 20 percent invested by the firm co-founded by Jerome Kohlberg, a founding partner of KKR who effectively retired from the private equity industry in 1994.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Florida-based buyout firm continues its international expansion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Several private equity-focussed divisions of the investment bank, including Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, wait in limbo following an impending fire sale to JPMorgan, already home to two in-house direct investment initiatives.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
In the wake of Yucaipa-owned Aloha Airlines’ bankruptcy, yet another private equity-owned commercial airline has crashed.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
