Private Equity
The $14.5bn state endowment wants to pare down its private equity portfolio, which contains 150 funds from 80 GPs, to a size that its small staff can better manage. No word yet on the potential size of the sale.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The offering is poised to become the largest-ever private equity-backed initial offering in the US market for a group of funds managed by Goldman Sachs, Highstar, The Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Private equity-backed buyouts in 2010 totalled $221bn, the highest amount since 2008's $240bn, but fundraising for the year showed no increase over 2009.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The television viewership tracking company, owned by a consortium of firms including Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, has grown in further value after eclipsing its original share price.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Just two months after establishing an office in Seoul, the Swiss firm has made an undisclosed direct equity investment in Saehwa International Machinery.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The average bid price for buyout funds rose to about 90 percent of NAV in H2 2010, ending a year that recorded a record $20bn of secondary volume.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Is the US Congress directing the SEC to over-regulate?
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York turnaround firm has recruited Bob Sharp from Gloucester Engineering as an operating partner.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The $70bn public pension system - which is over-allocated to private equity - has made a smaller re-up to KKR's North American XI fund, targeting $8bn to $10bn.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Fundraising, M&A and exits bounced back last year from the lows of 2009, according to year-end statistics from research group Zero2IPO. But while VC reached new highs, PE has yet to return to peak levels.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
