Private Equity
Hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson has been made chairman of Forstmann Little & Co, the buyout firm whose founder Ted Forstmann died earlier this week.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Tom Attwood, the former chief executive of mezzanine provider ICG, will retire from the firm in March next year.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Ted Forstmann, one of the buyout industry's pioneers, has died at the age of 71 from brain cancer.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Peter Englander, a partner at Apax Partners, is retiring at the end of the month after 30 years at the firm.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The Chip Schorr-led firm has brought on former colleague Michael Stephenson from Citigroup Japan to focus on software and services investments from the firm’s New York office.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The global investment advisor has added Jim Strang, former head of fund investment at Dunedin Capital Partners, as a principal in London.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Scott Myers, who helped form secondary specialist Cogent Partners in 2002 along with other former executives from the Crossroads Group, is taking a reduced role at the firm.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Marlon Sahetapy started at the firm’s Singapore office in October, where he oversees fundraising and investor relations in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm’s European co-chair is stepping down to concentrate on deals, while other high profile partners are leaving or moving to part-time as the firm shifts its European focus in response to the continent’s volatile marketplace.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The London-based placement agent has hired James Wardlaw to its specialist infrastructure practice as a partner.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
