Private Equity
3 min read · 28 January 2013
Fundraising by U.S.-based firms have collectively captured $6.4 billion in capital so far this year. The aggregate was helped by the efforts of Silver Lake.
1 min read · 28 January 2013
The technology sector was the most active business area, when looking at the dollar value of dividend recap issuance during the past year in the middle market.
1 min read · 25 January 2013
Joshua Sobeck, a partner at 747 Capital, talks in this video about the firm’s strategy of investing at the very small end of the private equity market—buyout shops raising funds of less than $350 million and typically $150 million through fund of funds investments and managed accounts.
1 min read · 25 January 2013
Earlier this month Buyouts contributor Katie Roof caught up with Kevin Sheehan, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line, just after it priced its IPO on January 17. The company is backed by Apollo Management Group and TPG Capital. Check out the video here.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts recently opened a Singapore office, its seventh in Asia. The firm’s regional leader of Southeast Asia provides his views on a region where very few global firms have made investments.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
CHAMP Venture’s Paul Readdy talks to PE Asia about Australian private equity firms increasingly working with foreign LPs.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Japan seems stuck, for want of a better word. Yet small-cap buyout firm J-Star sees dealflow under the surface. President Gregory Hara discusses his firm's strategy in the context of Japan's market.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Vietnam is not the first place you would associate with technology innovation, yet IDG Ventures Vietnam has made over 40 investments in the country in the media/technology sector. Managing general partner Henry Nguyen talks about Vietnam with PE Asia.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
Banks and other traditional debt providers have decreased their funding to businesses in Asia forcing entrepreneurs to accept financing from credit managers, explains Robert Petty of Clearwater Capital Partners.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
