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.
Senior managing director Christine Vanden Beukel has ended a 10-year career leading GSC’s European mezzanine business. Her role is now filled in part by managing director Nick Petrusic, who joined the credit-focused alternative asset manager in 2000.
Fresh from its $900m exit of Ovation Pharmaceuticals, US buyout veteran GTCR has established a buy-and-build platform for specialty pharmaceutical companies and products.
The drug conglomerate’s division for pioneering prescription drugs has established Merck Serono Ventures to back emerging biotech companies.
The Canadian province has established a $650m fund to help its residents secure and maintain high-paying jobs in the clean- and green-tech sectors.
Fortress has attributed its $162m loss last year to non-cash adjustments for fair value write-downs and clawback reserves. But the firm remained upbeat on an analyst call, with chief executive Wes Edens forecasting an opportunity-laden ‘great liquidation’ of financial services assets following the current recession.
The UK’s secretary of state for business, Peter Mandelson, last night urged BVCA members to help drive UK economic growth by backing entrepreneurial start-ups and growing SMEs ‘into world beaters’. He also addressed the industry’s efforts to battle negative public perception, noting it had surpassed its ‘pain threshold’.
The cleantech-focused DFJ affiliate has closed its second fund slightly shy of its $500m hard cap. The fund's first investment was made last year in Quench USA, the largest marketer and distributor of bottle-less water coolers in the US.
Fresh from raising nearly €1bn for its eighth mid-cap fund, the French private equity firm is aligning itself to take advantage of market dislocation. It is also raising its third small-cap fund.
The 8-year-old firm led by UK entrepreneur Luke Johnson has raised its first institutional fund so as to be ready for investment opportunities driven by current market distress.
ING PEAL has been drawing on an A$20m credit facility to fund capital calls and will try to reduce some A$49m in undrawn commitments via secondary sales. It has also ceased paying dividends and making new investments.