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  • Obama lures buyout exec to Treasury post
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    Hellman & Friedman will lose Jeffrey Goldstein, a managing director in the firm’s New York office and former World Bank chief, as it continues to close in on $10bn for Fund VII.

  • INTERVIEW: SILVERFLEET CAPITAL
    PEI Staff- 5 January 2013

    Nicholas Lockley finds recently re-branded UK mid-market specialist Silverfleet Capital content as the economy enters a wintry spell.

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    PEI Staff- 5 January 2013

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  • Why normality is on hold
    PEI Staff- 5 January 2013

    Limited partners need to be in full possession of the facts before resuming substantial investment in private equity. Andy Thomson reports

  • HM Capital buys newspaper assets
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The Dallas, Texas-based private equity firm is the latest to snap up struggling publications.

  • Florida invests nearly $500m in private equity in Q1
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The $113bn pension committed to GI Partners, FS Equity, Hellman & Friedman and Charterhouse Capital Partners in the first quarter of 2009.

  • News analysis: Candover exit could provide respite
    Toby Mitchenall- 5 January 2013

    Selling Wood Mackenzie for £550m would allow the listed firm to pay down around £30m of debt, but Candover would still not be ‘out of the woods’.

  • Virginia commits $300m to Hellman, First Reserve
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The $41.8bn pension will invest $150m each to Hellman & Friedman VII, targeting $10bn, and First Reserve XII, targeting $12bn.

  • Zell admits $8bn Tribune LBO was 'mistake'
    Amanda Janis- 5 January 2013

    Sam Zell has said he'd been too optimistic about the Chicago-based media company, which in December collapsed under a $13bn debt load. Zell stressed the need to find a new business model for newspapers, likening a potential Tribune merger to asking another company if it wants to 'get vaccinated with a live virus'.

  • Texas ERS makes $100m commitment to Hellman & Friedman
    Christopher Witkowsky- 5 January 2013

    The $21bn pension committed $100m to Hellman & Friedman’s seventh fund as it looks to invest $1bn in private equity this year.