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Fundraising Special: A risky businessPrivate equity groups are hoping for a better year on the fundraising trail in 2013, as global investors start to seek out better returns from their investments, writes Simon Meads.
- Louisiana Teachers’ commits $125m to CVC Capital
The state’s $14.9bn retirement system approved the commitment to CVC’s sixth fund last week.
- Five minutes with David Whiteley
As new buyouts remain scarce, many GPs are taking advantage of the high yield bond market to refinance deals for dividend recaps, David Whiteley, a managing director leveraged loan markets at Lloyds Bank, tells PEI.
- Friday Letter: Another Debenhams?
Based on some of the recent press coverage of the industry, it would be easy for the casual observer to get the impression that private equity is the root of all evil.
- Hong Kong's GCS to buy €80bn asset manager
GCS Capital has agreed to buy Dexia Asset Management, which had reportedly drawn interest from firms including Advent, Bain, CVC, Permira and Warburg Pincus.
- China’s GCS eyes €80bn asset manager
GCS Capital has entered exclusive talks for Dexia Asset Management, which had reportedly drawn interest from firms including Advent, Bain, CVC, Permira and Warburg Pincus.
- Bain acquires Skylark in $2.1bn blockbuster Japan deal
Bain is set to buy Japanese restaurant chain Skylark in the country’s biggest buyout for two years. CVC Asia Pacific in 2009 reportedly gave up its stake in Skylark so as not to have to repay debt related to the 2006 MBO it led for the same company.
- Don’t sour on private equity
Private equity firms have a role to play in infrastructure. They might just have to tweak some of the ways they do business, argues Cezary Podkul.
- Apollo hires ex-Goldman investment chief
Marc Spilker has been named Apollo’s first-ever president, in the firm's latest 'institutionalisation' move ahead of a public listing.
- ACS agrees €720m sale of ports unit to JPMorgan
Spanish developer Actividades de Construccion y Servicios (ACS) has agreed to sell its ports services business, Dragados SPL, to an institutional investment group headed by JPMorgan Asset Management, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is worth some €720m.