Private Equity
Leonard Green & Partners LP is exploring a sale of Brickman Group Holdings Inc that could value the largest commercial landscaping company in the United States at up to $1.5 billion, three people familiar with the matter told sister news service Reuters.
1 min read · 16 August 2013
When examining buyout deals from a value perspective, consumer related portfolio companies receive the most capital with the average value of a deal being over $130 million.
1 min read · 16 August 2013
U.S. buyout and mezzanine shops have collectively secured approximately $92 billion so far in 2013. Compared to 2012, this figure is slightly lower than the $105.5 billion raised from investor commitments by this time last year. Among the firms who closed their funds over the past weeks were Generation Growth Capital and Rock Hill Capital Group.
1 min read · 12 August 2013
A growing number of buyout shops are seeking more time to invest giant funds raised at last decade’s market peak before the financial crisis, sister website peHUB reported, as TPG Capital became the latest firm to secure an extension.
3 min read · 09 August 2013
So far in 2013, buyout firms have participated in almost 2,000 deals.
1 min read · 08 August 2013
The stigma that used to be associated with using a placement agent to raise a fund, if it ever existed, has largely dissipated.
1 min read · 02 August 2013
The blurry boundaries of the growth equity market inevitably lead to confusion in the market place.
4 min read · 29 July 2013
LeapFrog Investments is a different kind of private equity firm, one that succeeds not just by making money, but by making a positive impact on society.
6 min read · 29 July 2013
More and more limited partners seem to be complaining that their general partners are expensing costs to the fund that they expected the GP to pick up the tab on.
1 min read · 26 July 2013
Chrissie Pariso, senior portfolio manager, private equity, at Exelon Corp, talks in this video about how her employer — one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plant operators and an electrical utility with operations in Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore — invests in private equity.
1 min read · 17 July 2013
