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Apax to buy Israel's largest asset manager in $620m dealApax will boost its FIG holdings with Psagot Investment House, a $32bn asset manager in which Hellman & Friedman had reportedly bid for a lesser stake at a lower valuation.
- Apax writes equity cheque for £975m Marken deal
The buyout firm has underwritten its portion of the deal entirely with equity, and will look to put a debt package in place before it completes in 2010.
- Florida SBA commits $300m to Levine Leichtman, Providence
The board, which manages the state’s $113bn pension, also is considering investments in Oaktree and Bayview.
- Tennessee commits $25m to DFJ X
Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s 10th fund has lowered its target to $400m from $600m.
- Tennessee considers secondaries investments
Three months after announcing its first ever private equity commitments, the $27bn pension is mulling a move into secondaries to diversify its vintage year exposure.
- ‘Pass-the-parcel’ comes back into fashion
A number of recent and current deals suggest that the secondary buyout – a mainstay of the credit boom era – may be making a comeback.
- QUESTION & ANSWER: ‘Right team, strategy, structure’
GI Partners’ European managing director Mark Tagliaferri on the firm’s $1.9bn fundraise and strategy
- NY Common sticks with PE amid scandal investigation
The pension’s $200m commitment to Hellman & Friedman, is evidence that it plans to continue to back private equity funds despite an ongoing pay-to-play investigation.
- Florida commits more than $770m to private equity
The Florida State Board of Administration has committed more than $1bn to the asset class in 2009.
- US charges 14, alleging insider trading on PE deals
An 'insider trading network' allegedly paid cash in exchange for tips on deals backed by Silver Lake, TPG, Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone.