Private Equity
Fresh off a quick sale of Digital Insight, Thoma Bravo is marketing its its 11th fund, according to sources
2 min read · 30 January 2014
By spinning off a unit that represents about a third of the company, owners of SunGard Data Systems Inc are separating two businesses going in different directions and giving themselves options for exiting the eight-year-old investment.
3 min read · 29 January 2014
Oregon State Treasury’s long-time private equity guru, Jay Fewel, announced his intention to retire back in early December, and the industry has been anticipating who would rise to the helm of the state’s large and very mature program, sister news service peHUB reported.
3 min read · 29 January 2014
Lynn Tilton has decided to pull the plug on American LaFrance LLC, a maker of fire trucks and other industrial equipment that Tilton’s Patriarch Partners LLC managed to retain through its 2008 bankruptcy reorganization but that ultimately failed.
2 min read · 28 January 2014
There is a unique fund in the market targeting investments in music copyright royalties, sister news service peHUB reported.
2 min read · 27 January 2014
Macquarie Investment Management, the €196 billion ($268 billion) asset management arm of the Australian banking giant, has hired two firms to advise its private markets group on private equity fund investments in Europe and the U.S. – work that it had formerly done in-house, sister news service peHUB reported.
2 min read · 23 January 2014
The Oregon Investment Council, which oversees several state trust funds, including the Oregon Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, could commit up to $2.2 billion this year to private equity, according to a person with knowledge of the system, sister news service peHUB reported.
1 min read · 23 January 2014
Buyouts talks to SunTx Capital Partners about Texas, deals and the outlook for 2014
3 min read · 22 January 2014
It may be a combination of investor demands and regulatory pressure that finally prompts buyout firms to move beyond spreadsheets to adopt enterprise software systems, a new report argues.
2 min read · 21 January 2014
Elizabeth Caldas, a senior private equity investment official in the New York City Comptroller’s office, has left to join the investment team at the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, three people told sister news service peHUB.
2 min read · 17 January 2014
