Private Equity
Deal volume in the leveraged buyout market continued to improve—albeit modestly—in 2012 from its nadir in the Great Recession. But despite favorable financing conditions the market showed no signs of returning to the pace of the buyout boom in 2006 and 2007.
7 min read · 24 December 2012
Domestic buyout and mezzanine shops were quite active in the capital raising front during 2012. Collectively, these firms secured about $154.2 billion, with activity strong in the mega funds (with targets of at least $5 billion) and the large-medium funds (those seeking $1 billion to less than $5 billion) groups.
1 min read · 24 December 2012
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System made the largest commitments to a single fund from the start of September through Dec. 10 this year, according to the research by Buyouts.
1 min read · 21 December 2012
Joncarlo Mark, the managing member of Upwelling Capital Group, talks about the startup advisory firm’s vision to promote an even more vigorous secondary market for limited partnership interests.
1 min read · 20 December 2012
The health care sector, one of the industries that private equity favors, is seeing employment gains.
1 min read · 14 December 2012
Greg Baty, a principal at Hamilton Lane, a private equity adviser and fund of funds manager, discusses the firm’s global expansion, the way it reviews PPMs and its strategies for investing in private equity.
1 min read · 12 December 2012
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms have secured $143.3 billion through the first 11 months of 2012.
1 min read · 10 December 2012
The number of U.S. buyout-backed companies that filed for bankruptcy protection so far this year is 19, which is the total for all of 2011.
1 min read · 07 December 2012
Irwin C. Loud, the chief investment officer at the emerging-manager fund of funds Muller & Monroe, discusses his firm’s philosophy and strategy in this exclusive Buyouts video.
1 min read · 06 December 2012
Chris Walker, a principal at Boston-based Harbourvest Partners LLC, discusses the approach that the fund of funds manager takes in its global private equity strategy.
1 min read · 30 November 2012
