PEI Staff

The US market remains abuzz with talk of the litigation launched by aggrieved LPs against their GPs. Joe Bartlett takes a lawyer's look at where this has come from and wonders where it may go.

Deferred consideration means that deal terms can often be worse for the vendor than might first appear.

Dominique Peninon is managing partner at fund of funds manager Access Capital Partners as well as being former chairman of the investor relations committee at EVCA. Given the distinctive nature of these roles, Asset Class talked to him about what LPs can and should expect from GPs.

News: People Staff 2002-04-01 Writer <b>Second age of Mann for Merrill</b><br />Merrill Lynch has re-hired its former head of global high yield, Jack Mann, who is currently managing director at Carlyle Group's collateralised debt obligation, as global head of leveraged finance

News: Deals Staff 2002-04-01 Writer <b>Nomura exits pub chains</b><br />Nomura International has announced that it has sold its Voyager and Unique pub chains (Newco) to a consortium led by Cinven in a £2.013bn transaction. The pub estate acquired consists of 4,189 pubs and is

News: Buyside Staff 2002-04-01 Writer <b>European Private Equity Funds Formed 1980 - 1999 Net Returns to Investors From Inception to 31 - Dec - 2001</b><br /><table><tr><td>Size (Mill euro)</td><td>Number</td><td>Average</td><

News: Funds Staff 2002-04-01 Writer <b>UK buyout market recovers</b><br />The value of buyouts deals for the first quarter of 2002 is up nearly £2bn on the final quarter for 2001, according to figures published by the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CMBOR). The total de

Placement agents occupy a unique position within the private equity community, as few other individuals ? and these firms are very much made up of individuals ? spend so much time talking to both LPs and GPs. And this creates the interesting situation of having two clients in any one project: both the fund manager […]