Private Equity
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan has hit out at the proliferation of equity bridge facilities used on large buyout deals, suggesting that they are not good for the lending banks or the private equity sponsors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i's chief executive Philip Yea, BVCA chairman Wol Kolade, Duke Street Capital's Peter Taylor and others discuss with Sir David Walker the implications of his report on transparency, webcast in partnership with The Daily Telegraph and law firm SJ Berwin.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity legend Ted Forstmann is returning to active investment, after winding down his own firm in 2004. He is raising a $250 million media and entertainment fund with Chris Albrecht, formerly the head of HBO.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
RREEF has hired Adam Graev, former vice president of secondaries firm Pomona Capital, to lead secondary and co-investment deals in North America.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Franko Neumetzler, the owner of German lighting company SLV Group, has sold a sizeable part of his majority stake to European buyout firm HgCapital, as he looks to resolve succession problems at the company he founded.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Société Géneralé has expanded its acquisition and leverage finance business to Australia to boost existing Asia Pacific operations based in Hong Kong.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan has hit out at the proliferation of equity bridge facilities used on large buyout deals, suggesting that they are not good for the lending banks or the private equity sponsors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Fred Watt, who a year ago was set to work with Doughty Hanson on a publicly listed fund that never went ahead, has joined the European LBO house as chief operating officer.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Actis, the emerging market buyout investor, has hired Lim Meng Ann, a former China-based GIC Special Investment executive to head its China operations. Lim replaces Chin Bay Chong, who left Actis at the start of the year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Riverstone has hired former BP executive Ralph Alexander, just weeks after appointing BP's former CEO, Lord Browne, to lead its European activities.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
