Private Equity
TPG is the first private equity firm to merge its portfolio companies into Blackstone’s new healthcare purchasing consortium, Equity Healthcare.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Manchester-based firm has acquired Air Energi, which provides recruitment for the global oil and gas industry.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Two senior professionals have departed the firm in the span of two weeks, amid a turbulent period for the placement industry.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Private equity-backed IPO filings and floats are on the rise, but that doesn’t mean public markets will necessarily take over as a preferred exit route.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The 41-year-old private equity firm beat the $3.5bn target for its latest fund. Its reduction of carry to 20% from 25% is not the only reason it resonated with LPs, managing director Brian Conway told PEO.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm declined to say whether key-man issues are triggered by the departure of its COO, European FoF head and an executive responsible for global co-investments.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The media-focused private equity firm is now a shareholder in Rasmussen Reports, a company known for its public opinion surveys.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The semiconductor company, owned by KKR and Silver Lake, is one of several public offerings planned by private equity sponsors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Lower capitalisation levels and shorter hold periods are among the changes to proposed FDIC bank ownership rules offered by a group of private equity firms.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
The US business development company has slashed about 44% of its workforce and is trying to negotiate out of a default situation that has paralysed its investment activity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
