Private Equity
The buyout firm has hired Steve Sterling of Bear Stearns for a newly created role as head of its US leveraged finance research team.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Former First Reserve director Craig Jarchow has been hired by Pine Brook Road, the New York firm led by former Warburg Pincus vice chairman, Howard Newman.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Gerrit Zalm, the Dutch political heavyweight, signs up to advise Permira as the buyout firm acknowledges it will have to engage with a wider range of people than just its investors and management teams in today's political climate.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Temasek, the Singapore sovereign fund, has lost three senior investment executives in a week. Jimmy Phoon, the chief investment officer of the investment firm in Singapore, is leaving. Hong Kong’s Frank Tang, Temasek China dealmaker, has also resigned with his colleague Terry Hu.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tim Bunting, the former Goldman Sachs banker, has taken on a full-time role with venture firm Balderton, after working with it in its previous incarnation as Benchmark Capital Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The head of BlackRock investment management firm, spun out of The Blackstone Group in 1992, has stepped down as president—reportedly to raise a $1 billion fund for private equity, hedge fund and real estate investments.
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
More than two dozen of this year's 400 richest US citizens owe their fortunes to private equity.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Serkan Elden has returned to AIG Investments to spearhead its investment activities in Turkey, having left the firm after a six-year spell in 2004.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Antonio Bonchristiano, co-head of Brazil's GP Investments, shares his thoughts on the next 12 months after four years of stable growth in the region.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
