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 Gores Group spin-out raised $300m for its prior fund in less than three months.
The publicly listed professional beauty supply retailer will roll Schoeneman Beauty into a subsidiary platform.
Only 31 deals were done in the third quarter, a level not seen since 1984. Meanwhile, the number of businesses being acquired out of receivership is the highest since 2001.
The largest private equity deal in the CEE region this year also represents a partial exit for Enterprise Investors.
The private equity firms reportedly may make up to a 3x multiple on West Corp, which they took private in 2006 for $3.3bn.
SeaWorld is among the theme parks Anheuser-Busch InBev may sell to the mega-firm. Meanwhile, CVC has reportedly increased the equity ratio in its €1.3bn bid for the brewer's CEE assets.
The lenders will anchor the German yacht maker with a €55m investment and write down most of its debt. Bain bought Bavaria for €1.3bn in July 2007.
EMX Capital will manage the $134m Mexico fund Carlyle closed in 2007.
The mid-market firm has made two healthcare-related acquisitions this week, one in Portugal and one in Texas.
Two years after shelving similar plans, the European mid-market firm is pursuing a dual-track sale process for Pets at Home that may value it at as much as £700m.