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.
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
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.
Europe 2003-01-01 Staff Writer <strong>Europe<br> Deals & Exits</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>NIB to back Deutsche MBO</strong><br> Dutch private equity house NIB Capital is in exclusive negotiations with Ted Virtue, the New York based chief execut
What are companies doing looking to offer their employees private equity co-investment plans? Norman Leben of DML explains.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, chiefly aimed at resurrecting investors' trust in the public markets, has prompted a fierce debate about its many unintended side effects and their impact on the private equity industry. To find out what exactly the issues are, Private Equity International consulted two legal practitioners. In these pages, Franci J. Blassberg of Debevoise & Plimpton and Prakash Metha of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld get to grips with the new rules and the ways in which they are going to affect the private equity business.
News: Funds 2002-09-01 Staff Writer <b>Blackstone closes record fund</b><br />The Blackstone Group has closed its fourth private equity fund, having received $6.45bn in limited partner commitments. BCP IV is the largest private equity fund raised to date. The fundraising, in part facilitate
When do private equity and property fit together? A growing number of dedicated European real estate private equity funds are out to prove to investors in Europe that opportunistic property investment fits the private equity model well. Philip Borel takes a look.
US private equity firms have had a difficult time breaking into the “mass-affluent” market. David Snow explains why.
News: Funds 2002-08-01 Staff Writer <b>GSC closes Europe's largest mezzanine fund</b><br />GSC Partners, the independent private capital investor, has held a final closing for GSC European Mezzanine Fund LP. At €1.065bn, it is the largest dedicated mezzanine fund raised in Europe to date.&l