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GPs turn to dividend recapsThere has been a pronounced increase in the number of dividend recapitalisations as firms seek alternative means to realise value from their investments, according to a Moody’s report.
- Operating Partners Forum: Choosing the right CEO
Firms need to make sure the right management team is in place at portfolio companies and awareness is growing of the importance of human capital professionals to accomplish those evaluations.
- Operating Partners Forum: Cutting costs not an easy fix
Even though cutting costs can improve portfolio company performance, doing so without consideration of product quality can damage a business’s reputation.
- Vestar founder: Private equity overcrowded
Despite $385bn in dry powder, a weak exit environment does not bode well for private equity managers stuck with unrealised, pre-crisis assets, according to Vestar founder Norman Alpert.
- Macquarie hires Irving Place executive
Thomas Hassen has joined Macquarie as chair of its global oil and gas investment banking group.
- FDIC establishes rules for private equity bank buyouts
The US banking regulator scaled back its proposed rules, easing certain requirements that had attracted industry criticism including Tier 1 leverage ratios.
- Blackstone, Centerbridge offer alternatives to FDIC rules
Lower capitalisation levels and shorter hold periods are among the changes to proposed FDIC bank ownership rules offered by a group of private equity firms.
- Irving Place COO to retire
Gwyneth Ketterer, one of the highest ranking women in private equity, will leave her post as COO at Irving Place Capital, formerly Bear Stearns Merchant Banking.
- Irving Place chief: ‘Horrendous’ holiday season ahead
Trouble in the retail sector presents opportunity, with 'some of the greatest fortunes' due to be made by savvy investors over the next year, according to John Howard, CEO of Irving Place Capital, formerly Bear Stearns Merchant Banking.
- Bear Stearns Merchant Banking rebrands
The private equity firm, which will be called Irving Place Capital, spun out of collapsed investment bank Bear Stearns following its acquisition by investment bank JPMorgan.