Private Equity
The deal will dramatically increase the Connecticut-based financial software and services provider’s private equity client base.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The founder and co-chairman of Fortress Investment Group believes heavier regulation of private equity is both inevitable and positive.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The $126bn pension has created a new allocation to house its investments in the US Public Private Investment Programme.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Fire safety company Minimax has been merged with Viking Group in the US.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Treating placement agents as lobbyists under California law would impose the proper limitations on the practice, CalPERS’ president Rob Feckner wrote in a letter to the pension’s board.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm, founded by Tagg Romney, has hired Lee Scott, former CEO of Wal-Mart, as an operating partner.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
PEI Asia asked some of the region’s leading private equity LPs to name their pick of the Asia Pacific region’s “first-time” funds. The results are the eight names listed on pages 16 and 17. While some of the people may be familiar, having already made their mark elsewhere in Asian private equity, the firms they run now are probably not – yet. They have had the toughest of challenges thrown at them, in the form of the economic downturn, but the expectation is that these eight firms will go on to establish themselves firmly in the bedrock of the Asian private equity industry. Reporting by Jenny Blinch, Siddharth Poddar and Yvette Choo
10 min read · 05 January 2013
Adam Barron and Edmund Lazarus will run the new fund under the name of Bregal Capital, as former chief Dominic Shorthouse spins out, taking along the Englefield name.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Private Equity Manager sought out feedback from several different private equity players with regard to 'Private Equity Principles' just released by the Institutional Limited Partners Association. The LP-friendly suggested partnership terms are seen by some non-LPs as less than perfect.
9 min read · 05 January 2013
Cadol Cheung has established FUEL Capital to focus on Chinese cleantech and healthcare deals. The firm is reportedly raising a $100m fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
