Private Equity
Madison Dearborn Partners plans to begin fundraising for its next fund later this year, probably in the second half, said Chairman John Canning.
3 min read · 24 June 2014
3 min read · 02 June 2014
Huron Capital Partners won Buyouts’ 2013 Small Deal of the Year for its return in excess of 6x on Labstat International. Any other major milestones you’d like to share since then on the deal front?
3 min read · 19 May 2014
David C. Turner, who seven years ago started a private equity portfolio for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and led its growth to more than $1 billion, is stepping down effective May 30. Turner will hand the reins to Managing Director Maurice Gordon. (See video interview of Maurice Gordon from June 2014 here.)
2 min read · 15 April 2014
University of Texas Investment Management Co’s Bruce Zimmerman said Carlyle Group’s recent hiring of JPMorgan’s Michael Cavanagh marks an example of private equity firms becoming bigger and more institutionalized. (See related video here.)
2 min read · 27 March 2014
Steve Gelsi, senior editor at Buyouts, appeared on Reuters Trading at Noon on March 7 to discuss the deal by Cerberus Capital Management to take Safeway Inc private in a deal valued at about $9.4 billion.
1 min read · 07 March 2014
Peter Nolan, Managing Partner at Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners, discusses his firm’s approach to investing in companies, including Whole Foods, J. Crew and The Container Store, and warns that 2014 will be a challenging year.
1 min read · 28 January 2014
Greg Brenneman, Chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, looks back on a year in which his firm sold about $2 billion of equity from its portfolio companies
1 min read · 28 January 2014
In this video from Buyouts Texas, Erik Hirsch, the chief investment officer at Hamilton Lane, talks about trends affecting the private equity industry.
1 min read · 16 January 2014
Buyout pros often torpedo their own deals because of a lack of emotional intelligence and a failure to build rapport with those on the other side of the negotiating table, says David Solomon, the CEO of Lazard Middle Market.
2 min read · 16 December 2013
