Private Equity
After five years of struggle to stabilize its floundering member states and its common currency, Europe appears to be on the verge of a comeback.
4 min read · 25 February 2013
Marco De Benedetti, a managing director and co-head of European buyouts at The Carlyle Group,
3 min read · 25 February 2013
2 min read · 25 February 2013
2 min read · 25 February 2013
As Oaktree Capital Group LLC gears up for its next control investing fund, its chairman joined a small but growing chorus of general partners complaining about generous preferred returns for investors. However, he acknowledged such fundraising provisions are unlikely to swing back the GPs’ way any time soon.
2 min read · 14 February 2013
The votes are in, and "growth capital" is the moniker that peHUB readers would choose to replace "private equity" as the name of the industry.
2 min read · 11 February 2013
3 min read · 11 February 2013
Please don’t ask Andrew Hawkins about his interest in zombie funds. He says he prefers to think of his new firm, NewGlobe Capital Partners LLP, as an investor in “disrupted-cycle” private equity funds.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
Even though large syndicated mega-deals have fallen out of favor since the financial crisis, dealmakers at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. remain confident of their ability to mount a major buyout—but not necessarily in cahoots with other sponsors.
2 min read · 07 February 2013
KPS Capital Partners LP is poised to pay itself and investors a hefty dividend from Waupaca Foundry Inc., an automotive parts company that the New York buyout shop acquired last summer. Ratings agencies affirmed the carveout’s overall financial health, although one worried about the specific term loan that the borrower is upsizing.
3 min read · 05 February 2013
