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Holiday season round-up: North American DealsThe North American market was the setting for a late surge in deal activity, with a number of firms agreeing buyouts as the year drew to a close.
- NY Fed names Silver Lake's Hutchins to board
The Silver Lake co-founder was selected to complete the three year term of Jeffrey Kindler because of his expertise in the technology sector.
- Apollo real estate secures first Europe deal
The New York firm has exchanged contracts to buy a £60m data centre in London in its first deal in Europe since taking over Citi Property Investors last November.
- Stellar return offers succour to European venture
DFJ Esprit has allayed fears that a subdued exit environment will make it hard for European venture capital firms to monetise their investments, sealing a 15x return following the sale of Zeus Technology.
- Silver Lake and KKR partner again
The duo have once again teamed up on a multi-billion deal, this time for domain name and site registration company Go Daddy.
- Silver Lake revels in $8.5bn Skype exit
Technology-focused Silver Lake Partners and its fellow investors in voice-over-internet protocol business Skype are set for a huge return following the company’s sale to technology group Microsoft.
- Skype: the deal that keeps delivering
A cursory trawl of our archives demonstrates just how intimately tied Skype has been to venture capital and private equity firms during its short lifetime, and how profitable it has been for those firms.
- Boundless opportunity
After the crisis, opportunities abound in the US private equity market, writes Graeme Faulds.
- Collaboration = collusion?
If reports that several private equity firms have retained counsel to look into anti-trust issues related to the ILPA guidelines are true, it would seem that GPs are trying to pull the pendulum back in their direction.
- Terra Firma unleashes ‘superlawyer’ vs. Citi
The firm’s hired legal gun, David Boies, once represented US vice president Al Gore in the Florida voting dispute during the 2000 presidential election.