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Goldman, EQT prep ISS for $8.5bn exitApax has reportedly beat out rival private equity consortiums to become the exclusive bidder on the world’s fourth-largest employer, which has grown considerably under private ownership.
- Courting California
Placement agents are undecided as to the upside in registering as lobbyists to comply with California’s law governing public pension interaction with third parties.
- Coulter: Private equity's evolution continues
True value creation plus a focus on sector dislocation and emerging markets have become crucial given the 'flat, low growth' environment, according to TPG co-founder Jim Coulter.
- Apollo in $525m ‘life-settlements’ bet
The Leon Black-led firm is raising a low-fee vehicle with a select group of LPs to buy bundles of life-insurance policies from distressed institutions.
- CalPERS launches ‘whistleblower' helpline, risk office
The initiatives are among several - including support of a state bill forcing placement agents to register as lobbyists - designed to ‘restore confidence, integrity and accountability’.
- PEC adds 18 members, changes name
The Washington, DC trade group has more than doubled its membership to include mid-market firms, and has created a committee to consider issues relating to the small and mid-market.
- Shahinian steps down from CalPERS post
The pension’s head of alternative investments, already on administrative leave, has resigned amid an ongoing placement agent investigation.
- Undisclosed luxury travel centre of CalPERS probe
The pre-2008 trips - arranged by private equity and real estate GPs - related only to firms in which the US pension owned a management stake or on whose LP advisory boards it sat.
- CalPERS officials questioned Apollo's Villalobos ties
A high-ranking CalPERS private equity official allegedly asked Apollo's Leon Black in 2006 to bring investment opportunities directly to him, rather than using 'third parties'.
- Texas Teachers co-invests $160m
The $94bn pension fund has invested alongside KKR, Warburg Pincus and Apollo in the past nine months as it expands its co-investment programme.