Amanda Janis
Amanda is the Director of Product Management for PEI, whose editorial titles include Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Buyouts, PE Hub, VCJ, Real Estate Capital, Private Equity Real Estate, Agri Investor, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Private Funds CFO. She was previously the company's Group Managing Editor.
CEVA Logistics, an Apollo portfolio company, has offered $1.8 billion in cash for transport and logistics firm EGL. The offer, Apollo’s fourth, is a 13.2 percent premium over an agreed Centerbridge-backed bid that Apollo is trying to block with litigation.
US middle market buyout shop Olympus has closed its fifth fund on $1.5 billion.
Battery Ventures has hired away two tech industry professionals, VeriSign’s Matt Niehaus and Google’s Satya Patel.
KKR’s Euronext-traded affiliate has invested $167.4 million in convertible preferred stock of Japanese credit card firm Orient. It is the publicly traded vehicle’s second PIPE.
CEVA Logistics, an Apollo portfolio company, has offered $1.8 billion in cash for transport and logistics firm EGL. The offer, Apollo’s fourth, is a 13.2 percent premium over an agreed Centerbridge-backed bid that Apollo is trying to block with litigation.
BISYS, a provider of outsourcing solutions for the investment and insurance industries, is set to be acquired by Citi for $1.5 billion; it will then sell two BISYS divisions to JC Flowers.
Dutch retail giant Royal Ahold has agreed to sell its food distribution company, US Foodservice, to KKR and CD&R for $7.1 billion.
Arlett Tygesen, former executive director of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, has joined Bear Stearns’ recently created Private Funds Group.
CDW, a low-cost tech product retailer for businesses, governments and schools, is set to be acquired by Chicago-based Madison Dearborn in a $7.3 billion transaction.
BISYS, a provider of outsourcing solutions for the investment and insurance industries, is set to be acquired by Citi for $1.5 billion; it will then sell two BISYS divisions to JC Flowers.