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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.
- News analysis: Mega-deals range from brilliant to scary
The largest LBOs done during the bygone buyout boom range from superb performers to ‘scary’, and ‘could-be-worse’ to ‘could-be-in-trouble’, according to Private Equity International magazine.
- GIC increases exposure to private equity
The Singapore sovereign wealth fund looks to alternative assets, including real estate, private equity and infrastructure to mitigate against further losses after a tumultuous year saw its portfolio shrink by more than one fifth.
- Temasek suffers annual losses, aims to reshape portfolio
The sovereign fund, whose portfolio recently recouped some of the value it had lost in the past fiscal year, has not made clear how its private equity investment strategy may shift.
- Carlyle collects $2.1bn for Asian buyouts
The global buyout firm continues to garner commitments for its third Asian buyout fund, having in June closed a $1bn Asian growth fund.
- Carlyle brings in corporate muscle
Former Goldman Sachs Capital Partners advisor Gregory Summe will join Carlyle in October to concentrate on the firm’s buyout portfolio.
- Carlyle to sell Taiwan cable company for TWD32.8bn
The US buyout firm will exit kbro in a share swap that gives it a 15.5% stake in Taiwan Mobile and a $14m cash consideration.
- KKR hires former GSO exec for mezz business
Lee Stern will work in KKR’s fledgling mezzanine business, which was formed in 2008.
- Carlyle invests in Chinese infant formula company
With the second investment from Carlyle Asia Partners III - which has so far garnered $2.1 billion in commitments - the firm has become the latest buyout group to target China's dairy sector.
- 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.