PEI Staff
The private equity group has added Susan Brewster to its Leeds office to help invest its early stage technology fund.
Banking solutions firm raises $7.5m; Ibsen Photonics Buyout raises $15m; Kleinwort Capital invest £5.5m in Tweedpark.
Gresham Trust, a UK private equity firm, has had another hit with the exit of LSC Group, a military logistics group based in Staffordshire.
The financial services firm has made Sean Williams a partner within the drinks and leisure franchise of its corporate finance business.
Private equity in the dock?Court rise, for Lockley's Urban Metropolitan Public Employees Retirement Superannuation (Lumpers) Fund vs Black Box Partners, part the third.? At this, the gaggle of financial journalists huddled in the gallery at last fall silent. Imagine we are at the first ever trial between a general partner and a limited partner. The […]
Fund Aberdeen Growth VCT II Firm Aberdeen Murray Johnstone Sectoral Focus Technology Private Equity Amount Raised € 60m Fund Type Venture Capital Amount Targeted € 100m Status First Closing Investors UK pension funds the majority, also Geographical Focus United Kingdom US, Canadian and Middle Eastern institutional investors Fund Abingworth Bioventures III Firm Abingworth Management Ltd […]
Joe Bartlett, one of the oldest legal practitioners (his words) in the VC and buyout markets, has seen too much debate over too many fund terms. In an effort to bring some consistency to this discussion of best market practice, here is the first instalment of his catalogue of most Frequently Asked Fund Questions.
As more investors look more closely at investing in private equity, what's happening to the terms to be found in a fund's documentation? David Hawkins and Joe Bartlett take a look.
Up to 80 per cent of the economic capital put into an LBO doesn't come from private equity funds: it is provided by banks as debt. Given the pivotal role leverage has to play, what's the present state of the leveraged finance market? Robin Burnett reports.
Transparency in private equity has always seemed a contradiction in terms. But change is afoot, and the industry looks set to be stripped of its longheld privacy. European practitioners are leading the way, writes Philip Borel.