The Tokyo-based buyout house has announced the final closing of its second private equity fund on 75bn yen: 50% ahead of its original target.
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John Muse and the rest of the Dallas leadership of Hicks Muse Tate & Furst say they have finetuned a ‘formula for success’, and it doesn't involve Europe, Latin America, high tech or Tom Hicks. David Snow reports.
Vincenzo Morelli returns to the fray as TPG's new European operations pointman.
Governor Schwarzenegger wants CalPERS to become a ‘defined-contribution’ plan. Is this a harbinger of the end of days for traditional public pensions in private equity?
New York-based Paul Capital Partners has securitised most of the assets in a $300m drug-royalty fund.
Imported from the US, second lien strips are being increasingly used in leveraged finance transactions in Europe. Paul Mullen, partner in Lovell’s acquisition finance practice explains how they work and the structuring issues they present.
Understanding the legal framework surrounding shareholder issues in private companies is crucial to buy-out practitioners. Here, in an extract from The UK LBO Manual, a recently-published guide to structuring buy-outs in the United Kingdom, Charlie Geffen, Head of Private Equity at international law firm Ashurst, outlines issues surrounding income, capital and voting rights.
Harvest Partners takes money off the table in the $268m recapitalization of AMH Holdings, a manufacturer of exterior building products, less than one week after its acquisition of Levlad, a personal care products company.
The co-founder of The Carlyle Group said at a Yale University private equity event that hedge funds currently enjoy advantages over private equity firms in offering financing to companies.