Private Equity
US private equity firm Northern Lights Ventures shows how even smaller firms can get into the financial institutions game with a little creativity, writes Jennifer Harris.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The credit crunch gave mezzanine a short-lived time in the sun. Toby Mitchenall explains why it has all gone darker
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Four investment professionals discuss whether funds targeting Africa’s ‘missing middle’ – businesses whose funding needs are too large for microfinance but too small for other institutions – are just development projects in disguise or an investment opportunity not to be missed.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
European private equity groups lobbying against recent proposed regulations should take aim at three particularly harmful measures, writes Kevin Ley.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
David Snow lists five takeaway observations from last week’s PEI IR & Communications Forum in New York
2 min read · 05 January 2013
KKR’s creatively structured buyout of Oriental Brewery could provide a template for private equity deals during these volatile times, writes Siddharth Poddar.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
African GPs are looking beyond traditional structures to raise money in today’s market, writes Toby Mitchenall.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Cerberus has forgiven a $500m loan to the US automaker to help push through a sale to Italy's Fiat, bringing the Chrysler saga nearer an end. Christopher Witkowsky explores.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
We recently hosted an elegant black-tie dinner at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in honour of the winners of the 2008 Private Equity International Awards. Jeremy Coller, the founder and chief executive of secondaries firm Coller Capital, collected the second annual PEI Private Equity Leader award.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Total European private equity investment dropped significantly last year, but plenty of capital was gravitating to growth and venture capital, writes Andy Thomson.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
