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Meyer pleads guilty, faces 4 years in prisonThe founder of private equity advisory firm Aldus Equity, Saul Meyer, has admitted to having knowingly engaged in pay-to-play corruption in New York and New Mexico.
- Riverstone-backed energy group inks first deal
Pattern Energy Group is funding the development of a 101.2 megawatt wind farm in California.
- Report: Blackstone, Warburg to strike it rich
The reported $4bn sale of Kosmos Energy to ExxonMobil comes as institutional investors show increasing appetite for natural resources.
- Four GPs receive 'pay-to-play' wrist slaps
Levine Leichtman, HM Capital, Access Capital and Falconhead Capital will pay a total of $4.5m to settle with the New York attorney general’s office.
- SEC unveils proposed placement restrictions
The agency is seeking comments on rules that would prohibit placement agents from dealing with US public pensions.
- PCG to pay $2m to settle with New York in pension scandal
An affiliate of the California-based gatekeeper was a minority partner in a co-investment fund accused of kicking back illegal fees for a $750m commitment from New York State Common Retirement Fund.
- Riverstone buys Babcock’s North American Energy Group
The deal gives the energy and power private equity firm a management team of 80 professionals across four cities and the development rights to a 4,000-megawatt portfolio of wind power in 11 states.
- Riverstone co-founder is ‘continuing matter’ for Cuomo
In announcing a $30m ‘restitution’ to be paid by the private equity firm, the New York state attorney general today noted that the agreement does not include David Leuschen, one of Riverstone’s two co-founders. Cuomo promised that ‘new developments will be coming down the road’.
- Angola’s first private equity fund targets $100m
Previously the preserve of energy specialists and pan-regional players, Angola will soon have its first domestic private equity fund founded by a local bank and a development finance institution.
- Hg, Foresight capitalise on Spanish solar sell-off
Each firm has purchased a photovoltaic plant that has an attractive government-backed feed-in tariff. The tariff – which locked in multi-year fixed rates for projects connected to the power grid from September 2007 to September 2008 – fuelled a solar development boom in Spain.