Private Equity
Searchlight Capital Partners will acquire a minority stake in international cable company Liberty Global following a merger with Puerto Rico-based cable business OneLink Communications.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The Atlanta-headquartered firm is targeting $150m more than its 2007 predecessor fund and will continue to target healthcare, manufacturing and service companies in the US lower mid-market.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Andrew Bellis, a senior CLO manager at Credit Suisse, has joined 3i Debt Management as a partner in a further sign of the group’s ambitious growth plans.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The global investment advisor’s previous secondaries vehicle collected $591m toward a $600m target in 2009.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The industry group found that private equity indices and public pension portfolios consistently outperformed annualised S&P 500 returns in one, five and 10-year time horizons.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Priorities USA Action, a political action committee backing President Obama, has released a new ad attacking Mitt Romney’s private equity background in an effort to swing ‘battleground’ states.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The Washington State Investment Board re-upped almost $800m to two of its more established fund managers: Advent International and Nordic Capital.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Girard Miller will be tasked with overseeing the Orange County Employees Retirement System’s $9.6bn portfolio as it implements a new asset allocation mix.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
In difficult economic times private equity has consistently generated solid returns for investors and outperformed the public markets, according to research from EVCA and Thomson Reuters.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Tim Levene, founder of growth capital investor Augmentum Capital, discusses which market is best suited to a technology IPO after Facebook's troubled debut.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
