Pine Brook

The New York-based advisory firm has formed a new company that will count Soros Fund Management and Pine Brook among its shareholders.

The firm has promoted Nicholaos Krenteras from principal and hired Bharath Srikrishnan from Five Mile Capital.

Private equity club deal marks latest investment in insurance sector

The energy and financial services-focused firm is opening its first office outside of New York.

The energy and financial services-focused firm raised $2.43bn on a $2bn target.

The financial services sector is poised for a more robust year of IPOs in 2014, according to Pine Brook’s William Spiegel.

The firm has hired Guillermo Bron from Pine Brook portfolio company United PanAm Financial Corporation.

The firm has already invested about $258m from Fund II in five investments.

A stabilised oil price is driving renewed M&A activity, but will gas assets emerge as the most profitable option in the long term?

Private equity firms focused on investing in the energy sector are scouring that industry to hire people to create value.

CVC introduced Temasek to the deal

Only a few short years after it was torn apart by a pay-to-play scandal, the New Mexico State Investment Council has re-established itself as one of the most important limited partners in the industry, delivering top quartile returns. Sam Sutton meets state investment officer Steven Moise and deputy Vince Smith to find out how they turned things around

This year’s PEI 300 is populated with familiar names, but as the mid-2000s fundraising boom recedes into history, expect a radical shuffling of the ranks

KKR’s recent East Resources exit – coupled with HitecVision’s specialist energy fund close this week – is further evidence that the energy sector remains active and vibrant for private equity investors.