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.
The private equity firm needs to win over 3% of shareholders to proceed with its revised take-private bid, which has been rejected by the energy company’s board.
Actera co-founder Murat Çavusoglu told a standing room only crowd at the PEI Turkey Forum that much has changed since local entrepreneurs used to cling to the Turkish saying, 'May God never force you to sell your company'.
Vestar Capital has sold Birds Eye seven years after leading a $175m recap of the frozen food company. It marks Blackstone's fourth US private equity deal this year.
NBGI Private Equity has purchased the food supplier for £13m, about half of which comprised senior debt.
The London-listed fund of funds has seen the valuation of its assets increase by nearly 55% since the end of June.
In its second Japanese deal in two weeks, Carlyle has offered to buy Chimney Co., an operator of the Hananomai, Sakanaya Dojo and Kodawariyama restaurant chains.
CPPIB's credit arm, as well as KKR Capital Markets and four others, will provide financing for the purchase of government engineering consultancy TASC.
The $55m Mexico-listed fund raised by WAMEX – which will compliment a traditional fund, targeting $65m – is the first in a wave of expected offerings allowing domestic pensions to invest in the asset class.
Benoit Vauchy will head the Paris office, which has hired ex-Candover executive Simon Marc and recruited as an advisor the head of Financière Agache Private Equity, Jean-Marc Espalioux.
Graham Packaging's filing follows a failed $3.2bn reverse merger with Tom Hicks' SPAC, which instead chose to purchase NGP-backed Resolute Energy.