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Kohlberg hits hard cap on $1.5bn buyout fundNearly double the size of its predecessor, the fund has already been 20 percent invested by the firm co-founded by Jerome Kohlberg, a founding partner of KKR who effectively retired from the private equity industry in 1994.
- Carlyle again tops list of world’s largest firms
According to the PEI 50, a proprietary ranking of private equity firms unveiled today, the 50 largest private equity firms in the world have together raised $810bn over the last five years. At the top of the list are Carlyle, Goldman Sachs, TPG, KKR and CVC.
- Buyout firms eye portfolio debt buy-backs
The success of TDC, the Danish telecoms company backed by a buyout consortium, in deleveraging by buying its own debt at a discount, has tempted other firms to follow suit.
- Bankers take a back seat
Andy Thomson looks at why European debt providers may increasingly have to accept losing influence over private equity's portfolio companies.
- Bidding begins for UK biofuels company
The alternative energy sector is proving increasingly attractive as oil prices soar.
- Harvard endowment PE manager leaves for UNC
Kevin Tunick is the second alternative investment manager to leave the influential endowment following the arrival of a new CEO.
- CalPERS makes $718m in commitments
The $253 billion California pension fund made a fresh round of commitments to record-setting healthcare- and life science-focussed VC funds in addition to CVC and KKR.
- Cartoon vilifies Kravis, LBO industry
Political activist and documentarian Robert Greenwald again makes Henry Kravis the focus of his anti-LBO campaign, this time in animated form because ‘fun can go a long way’.
- Buyout chiefs defend industry
Industry figures have come out in defence both of financial engineering and the range and diversity of the asset class saying it does not depend on leverage for returns.
- KKR taps former Bush campaign manager as public affairs head
The global buyout firm has hired former Republican party chairman Ken Mehlman for a newly created post, its latest move toward internal institutionalisation before a public float.