• John Hershey to head alternatives • Appointment part of broader restructuring • Aims to better coordinate private, public investing Oregon State Treasury’s long-time private equity guru, Jay Fewel, announced his intention to retire back in early December, and the industry has been anticipating who would rise to the helm of the state’s large and […]
Peter Nolan, Managing Partner at Los Angeles-based Leonard Green & Partners, discusses his firm’s approach to investing in companies, including Whole Foods, J. Crew and The Container Store, and warns that 2014 will be a challenging year.
Greg Brenneman, Chairman of CCMP Capital Advisors, looks back on a year in which his firm sold about $2 billion of equity from its portfolio companies
In this video from Buyouts Texas, Erik Hirsch, the chief investment officer at Hamilton Lane, talks about trends affecting the private equity industry.
Buyouts sat down with Marek Herchel, partner at AlpInvest, to discuss its more than $4.2 billion secondary program, among other topics 1: AlpInvest announced some news on its sizeable secondary program, with more than $4.2 billion. What’s the reason behind this stronger interest in a category? Weren’t secondaries sort of out of favor a few […]
Buyout pros often torpedo their own deals because of a lack of emotional intelligence and a failure to build rapport with those on the other side of the negotiating table, says David Solomon, the CEO of Lazard Middle Market.
1. GTCR was one of the first private equity firms to bring on a full-time capital markets person to monitor conditions in the credit markets. What do you think will happen to the deal economy if and when the Federal Reserve begins to taper off its market intervention? There are many variables involved, so it’s […]
• Clark to step down Dec. 31 • Executive had been pushed into personal leave • Board meeting approves review The chief investment officer of the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, one of the oldest and most prolific public system limited partners in the private equity industry, has resigned effective Dec. 31, sister news service […]
A recent survey of limited partners has mixed news for general partners heading back to the well for fresh commitments in 2014, with many investors saying they have a strong appetite for U.S. buyout funds but little interest in evaluating new relationships with sponsors. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (62 percent) said they “plan to focus […]
After two years of sluggish deal making in the technology industry, participants in a survey are “modestly bullish” that the pace of mergers and acquisitions will pick up in 2014, according to a report by the law firm Morrison & Foerster.
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