Private Equity
In the latest stage of his very busy retirement, Tom Hicks has made a formal return to private equity with the launch of Dallas-based Hicks Equity Partners and the hiring of three managing directors for the firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
ACON Investments, Guggenheim Investment Management and West Coast Energy Partners have provided capital to enable Milagro Exploration to buy back Gulf Coast properties its founders once owned.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
General Atlantic, the global growth investor, is looking to the emerging BRIC markets and beyond in the 12 months ahead. Rene Kern, a managing director at the firm, spells it out.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Advisory firm Evercore Partners has added an eighth member to its Europe team, one year after launching its business on the continent.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Dubai International Capital, the Middle Eastern investment firm, has bought Almatis in a secondary deal, with loans at more than six times EBITDA provided by Swiss bank UBS.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
As the year draws to a close PEO's team has pulled out its crystal ball to take a view on 10 of the themes that will occupy the industry in 2008.
6 min read · 04 January 2013
American Capital has sold Swank Audio Visuals to Code Hennessy & Simmons, earning a three times return. The firm provided $48.5 million in debt financing for the deal.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
GP Investments has opened its first office outside of Brazil, part of its previously announced regional expansion.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Growth stage-focussed Technology Crossover Ventures has closed its seventh fund on $3 billion, causing Oak Investment Partners to lose the record for the largest fund ever raised by a VC firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Intel Capital has made an investment in rapidly growing security company InfoServer Informatica out of its $50 million Brazil fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
