Private Equity
Leonard Green & Partners LP is exploring a sale of Brickman Group Holdings Inc that could value the largest commercial landscaping company in the United States at up to $1.5 billion, three people familiar with the matter told sister news service Reuters.
1 min read · 16 August 2013
Private equity firms invested $347 billion in more than 2,000 portfolio companies in the United States last year, according to the the Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s annual “Private Equity: Top States and Districts” report.
1 min read · 12 July 2013
Joseph Dear, the chief investment officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, has given up some of his daily duties to fight cancer, according to a spokesman for the pension, which is the largest in the United States.
1 min read · 17 June 2013
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of Canada’s largest and most innovative, named Ron Mock to succeed Jim Leech as its president and CEO, according to a spokeswoman, Deborah Allan. Since 2008, according to Buyouts, peHUB's sister magazine, Mock has been the pension’s senior vice president in charge of fixed income and alternative investments...
2 min read · 15 May 2013
Ares Management LLC, an investment firm with some $59 billion in credit and private equity assets, is speaking to investment banks about an initial public offering in the United States, a person with knowledge of the matter told sister news service Reuters. If Ares proceeds with an IPO, it would be the latest in a string of U.S. stock market listings by alternative asset managers following public offerings last year from The Carlyle Group LP and Oaktree Capital Group LLC.
2 min read · 03 May 2013
1 min read · 11 March 2013
<p> <em>William Zartler, listed as a founder and managing director with the Boston-headquartered energy investor, left for undisclosed reasons.</em> </p> <p><em> <br /></em> </p>
2 min read · 27 February 2013
The firm will target $600m for its first debt fund and likely $500m for its second small-cap investment vehicle as it comes off a year in which it returned $2bn to LPs.
1 min read · 21 February 2013
A $25m lawsuit stemming from a ‘quick flip’ deal by mid-market firm Castle Harlan accuses the firm of sharing confidential information, though the lawsuit does not target the firm.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
AnaCap Financial Partners has met its £350m hard cap for its second credit opportunities fund, which raised almost six times as much capital as its first 2010-vintage debt investment vehicle.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
