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Report: Rattner close to deal with SECQuadrangle co-founder Steve Rattner could pay $6m and face a two-year ban from the securities industry, the WSJ reports.
- Carlyle loses Japanese buyout pro to Lazard
Masato Marumo, who was joint managing director of Carlyle’s Japan-focused buyout team, will now head Lazard's Japanese investment banking business.
- ArcLight fundraise hits uncertainties
The Boston-based energy firm has been targeting $3bn for its fifth fund, which launched last year, but is switching placement agents.
- Lazard hires European private equity co-head
Fotis Hasiotis will join Lazard in November to co-lead its financial sponsor coverage group in Europe.
- Carlyle, TPG pip KKR with $2.3bn Healthscope bid
The bidding war for the Australian hospital chain has concluded, giving rise to the country's largest LBO in two years.
- Apollo, Centerbridge reportedly in talks for CW Financial
As the parent company of CWCapital searches for a buyer, Apollo Global and Centerbridge Capital have reportedly made competing bids, while Warren Buffett is also eyeing the US’ second largest special servicer.
- The ones to call
Flip through consumer, retail or healthcare pitchbooks and you’ll be sure to find career investment bankers touting 25 or 30 years of experience in their sector. But infrastructure is a relatively new vertical for most banks, and experienced advisors can be hard to come by. When you do your research of who is who in infrastructure M&A work, the following ten names are bound to pop up. We present them here in alphabetical order*
- Gores nears $1.5bn final close for Fund III
The Alec Gores-led firm has collected just over $1bn for its latest special situations fund, which must close in August.
- Growth on demand
IL&FS Investment Managers was the first Indian private equity firm to raise an infrastructure fund and was among the earliest entrants into real estate. Executive director and CEO Archana Hingorani talks to Siddharth Poddar about its evolution into a diversified alternative asset manager.
- ICG raises more than €1bn for LBO debt
The firm’s ‘recovery fund’ will target the more than €240bn in European buyout-related debt that will need to be repaid or refinanced in the next two to six years.