The poor marketing of some VCTs shouldn’t be allowed to tarnish the image of a valuable source of enterprise capital, says SJ Berwin’s Simon Witney.
Tom Hicks, a retired giant of the global private equity fund investment industry, is back doing buyouts – this time with his own money. By Jonn Elledge.
The IPO of Promotora Ambiental, a Darby Overseas-backed waste management company, signals a revival of Mexico’s stock exchange and evidences the usefulness of mezzanine in Latin American investments. By Judy Kuan.
Blackstone Group, the New York-based alternative asset manager currently raising a $13bn private equity fund, is planning to muster as much as $10bn for hedge fund investment.
Global placement agent BerchWood Partners has made three appointments to its London, New York and San Francisco offices.
Santa Monica-based Tennenbaum Capital made a $120m capital infusion into Pennsylvania-based foodservice packaging company Radnor Holdings, investing in the company’s debt and equity.
A seasoned private equity practitioner who spends considerable time scrutinising the industry recently confessed to PEO that the practice had, in truth, fallen far short of the theory.
An EVCA survey has found that private equity and venture capital-financed companies create jobs at a far faster rate than other types of companies.
3i and a group of Australian infrastructure and investment funds have had a £246 million offer recommended by the board of the British ports operator.
GSC Partners and Tishman Speyer have launched a Chinese real estate joint venture, marking GSC’s first move into real estate.