The new head of CalPERS' $20 billion private equity programme plans to expand from the powerful platform he built alongside his former boss, Rick Hayes. David Snow visited Leon Shahinian at 400 P Street to learn more about the tastes, ambitions and challenges of this Sacramento native
Private equity firms are making inroads into Germany's corporate debt markets
Delta Capital Management, manager of the US Russia Investment Fund, has sold Russian consumer bank DeltaBank to GE Consumer Finance for a reported $100m.
The London-headquartered private equity firm has completed its eighth European transaction from a $1bn fund dedicated to the region.
Unprecedented bank and CDO appetite for leveraged loans in Europe has allowed issuance in the first half of 2004 to soar to an unprecedented €35.4 billion.
Having spent over three decades in the industry, Sir Robert Smith is a big name in UK private equity. Now retired (well, kind of), a recent non-executive appointment to the board of directors of 3i Plc means the veteran dealmaker is about to return to the action. Here he talks to Philip Borel about where British private equity came from and where it is going
Distressed investors are hungrily eyeing the many second-lien loans taken out by US private equity sponsors. Deal Mechanic presents the vulture view
Japan still has a reputation for seeing private equity as at best a necessary evil – but recent developments indicate perceptions may be changing
Richard Nevins, co-head of the restructuring advisory team at US investment bank Jefferies International, has relocated to London to spearhead the firm’s push into the European market.
The Boston growth equity firm has invested in Marrayhill, a credit risk management firm specialising in fixed-income securities.