Private Equity
Every quarter, the Private Equity Growth Capital Council releases its U.S. PE Index, and for the third quarter, the index fell 12 percentage points to 91.8 from the revised level in the second quarter.
1 min read · 30 November 2012
2 min read · 26 November 2012
Buyout and mezzanine shops based in the U.S. have secured about $140.86 billion in capital so far in 2012.
1 min read · 26 November 2012
U.S. buyout funds have generated a cumulative pooled IRR rate of 10.87 percent from 1978 through June 30, according to data from Thomson Reuters, the publisher of Buyouts.
1 min read · 23 November 2012
The 2007 vintage DLJ South American Partners is the top performer in this week’s LP Scorecard, which takes a look at the top-ten performing Latin American private equity vehicles in the Buyouts fund returns database.
3 min read · 20 November 2012
A dozen of the 15 mega-funds in the market have secured some capital commitments so far in 2012. The 12 have collected a combined $54 billion.
1 min read · 17 November 2012
Advent International closed its seventh global buyout fund with €8.5 billion ($10.8 billion), a significant feat in what has been an exceptionally challenging time for private equity firms to raise funds following the financial downturn in 2008.
3 min read · 12 November 2012
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine shops continue to find success in fundraising efforts. So far this year, they have collectively raised $139.4 billion.
1 min read · 12 November 2012
With closed deal volume still soft, financial sponsors have so far paid less in investment banking fees than they did a year earlier. They paid $5.1 billion through the first nine months of 2012, down 37.6 percent from an estimated $8.2 billion a year earlier.
3 min read · 29 October 2012
The capital secured by domestic buyout and mezzanine shops in their fundraising drives stands at about $136.5 billion.
1 min read · 29 October 2012
