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Over the course of its 28-year history, Oak Hill Capital Partners has developed an enviable track record. Its first two funds racked up return multiples well north of 2x invested capital, and its 10-year investment in ExlService Holdings, an offshore provider of financial technology services, won the Buyouts Emerging Market Deal of the Year Award in 2013 on the strength of its 34x return.
Simply emailing your work home so you can continue analyzing that spreadsheet could expose confidential data to a world of shady players, says Mark Johnson, the CEO of Elysium Solutions, a startup consulting firm in the information security arena.
Brookside Mezzanine Partners, a subordinated debt investor for a dozen years, is gaining traction with unitranche financing, David D. Buttolph, a managing director, founder and co-manager of the firm, told Buyouts.
Turnaround guru Wilbur L. Ross is poised to return nearly $50 million to investors in conjunction with an unusual transaction involving a group of failed banks based in Michigan. 
By spinning off a unit that represents about a third of the company, owners of SunGard Data Systems Inc are separating two businesses going in different directions and giving themselves options for exiting the eight-year-old investment.
Lynn Tilton has decided to pull the plug on American LaFrance LLC, a maker of fire trucks and other industrial equipment that Tilton’s Patriarch Partners LLC managed to retain through its 2008 bankruptcy reorganization but that ultimately failed.
Buyouts talks to SunTx Capital Partners about Texas, deals and the outlook for 2014
It may be a combination of investor demands and regulatory pressure that finally prompts buyout firms to move beyond spreadsheets to adopt enterprise software systems, a new report argues.
Golub Capital Inc has launched fundraising for its latest flagship fund, a regulatory filing showed, as the company shifts to Arabic numerals from Roman ones.
With regulators moving to curb certain impacts of the Volcker Rule, hopes are rising that they also may act to reduce certain limitations on collateralized loan obligations.
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