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  • Summit backs German trading platform
    Tom Porter- 6 January 2013

    Summit has invested in German online trading platform 360T at a time when PE firms are increasingly attracted to financial technology businesses.

  • Yellow Wood banks on ‘fairness’
    Graham Winfrey- 6 January 2013

    Yellow Wood Partners, co-founded by Peter Mann and Dana Schmaltz, is bringing a novel concept to the mid-market: no deal or monitoring fees.

  • New Jersey reaps $575m on secondary sales
    Christopher Witkowsky- 6 January 2013

    The $69bn state pension has sold stakes in funds run by GTCR, Apollo, Carlyle, Oaktree, TPG, Wayzata, Black Diamond Capital Management, Credit Suisse and THL as it works to shrink the size of its portfolio to make it more manageable.

  • Firm closes $225m fund that excludes deal fees
    Sam Sutton- 6 January 2013

    Yellow Wood Partners has closed its debut fund above its $200m target with capital from a select group of limited partners. The firm said deal and monitoring fees are a 'burden' to portfolio companies and it will not charge them.

  • UBS to run NYC private equity secondary sale
    Christopher Witkowsky- 6 January 2013

    The city’s pension system has put an initial offering of about $750m-worth of LP stakes on the secondary market, kick-starting what could be a very busy year for private equity secondaries.

  • Maine gets $30m access to KKR
    Christopher Witkowsky- 6 January 2013

    The $10bn pension system, which only started investing in private equity in 2008, has added some of the biggest names in the asset class to its portfolio, including KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman.

  • New Jersey scores $268m in secondary sale
    Sam Sutton- 6 January 2013

    The New Jersey Division of Investments has sold stakes in GTCR, TPG and Madison Dearborn V-A, which sold at a discount.

  • GTCR promotes two
    Graham Winfrey- 6 January 2013

    The Chicago-based firm, which most recently hired vice president Stephen Jeschke from Bain Capital, has promoted two vice presidents to principals.

  • GTCR follows ‘leader’ into real estate
    Graham Winfrey- 6 January 2013

    The mid-market specialist, whose leadership is profiled in an in-depth PEI feature this month, has gained indirect exposure to real estate investing through its most recent acquisition.

  • GTCR buys stake in real estate advisor
    Jonathan Brasse- 6 January 2013

    The Townsend Group, a real estate advisory and investment firm, has been 70% sold to Aligned Asset Managers, a GTCR portfolio company.