Leveraged financiers are bracing themselves for another challenging year. Senior lenders remain focused on fundamentals and the recovery of the high yield market is taking time, with buyers and sellers quarrelling over structural issues. Robin Burnett takes the pulse of the European leveraged debt market.
Limited partners' search for liquidity in private equity has provided structured product specialists with their best opportunity yet to prove they can change the face of the asset class. Expectations are running high, but what's needed next is evidence that private equity securitisation really works. Now is the time for the industry to deliver the deals. Philip Borel reports.
Americas 2003-02-01 Staff Writer <strong>America<br> Monitor</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Leaders of the fee world</strong><br> <bold>The management fee now finds itself the subject of some hostility. Investors question whether this particular f
Europe 2003-02-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Deals & Exits</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>Klesch buys Dynegy's European unit</strong><br> UK distressed specialist Klesch & Company has bought Dynegy's entire European broadband unit as the st
ACR backs Finnish firm Radionet; Xcellsyz completes £1.2m round; Giza backs $10m second round
Advent International has made its 75th investment in the communications sector with a E100m buyout of a European mobile telecoms clearing business.
After a torrid time involving burst technology bubbles, court cases and allegations of far-flung fraud, the Belgian VC is still shrinking.
Mark Director of Kirkland Ellis discusses the implications of Sarbanes-Oxley for the private equity industry.
Switzerland's corporates and mid-cap companies are slowly but surely turning to private equity amid increasing economic pressures and a tightening supply of credit. Natasha Berg looks at where the Swiss buyout market will be headed in 2003.
Hard hit by the market downturn, private equity funds of funds everywhere are bracing themselves for a period of sector consolidation, and the Swiss houses are right in the thick of it. Nicholas Lockley reports.