The San Francisco buyer of direct secondary interests in venture-backed companies has closed two side-by-side funds and acquired six companies from Safeguard Scientifics for $100 million.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
An SEC filing reveals the mega-firm’s IRRs to date as well as fundraising status for its seventh buyout fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The mid-market arm of Silver Lake, currently in fundraising mode, has hired John Brennan to grow the group’s investment team.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Exit opportunities for US venture-backed companies contracted in the first quarter of this year, according to a recent study.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
GLG, Goldman Sachs, and BlueMountain are first time investors in the ‘voice-to-screen’ messaging company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Frank Quattrone, a former CSFB banker who rose to fame during the dot-com era, has launched a technology merchant banking boutique with former CSFB colleagues.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The state investment council's board will soon vote on allocations to Los Angeles private equity firm Levine Liechtman and Clayton Dubilier & Rice.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Apollo, TPG and Blackstone are reportedly close to a deal to buy assets including leveraged loans linked to the firms’ own portfolio companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Peter Pace, formerly the US' highest-ranking military official, has joined the New York- and San Francisco-based private equity firm as an operating partner.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Nascent private equity programmes for the Arizona State Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System of Texas are making major commitments to the asset class this year.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
