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.
Réal Desrochers has ended his 11-year reign as the director of alternative investments at the US' second largest public pension, leaving veteran portfolio managers Margot Wirth and Seth Hall as interim co-directors. Desrochers did not disclose future professional plans in a farewell email sent to friends and colleagues.
Réal Desrochers has ended his 11-year reign as the director of alternative investments at the US' second largest public pension, leaving veteran portfolio managers Margot Wirth and Seth Hall as interim co-directors. Desrochers did not disclose future professional plans in a farewell email sent to friends and colleagues.
Following in the footsteps of American Capital and KKR, 3i will de-list its quoted private equity fund. The exercise values the vehicle at £355m, 33% above last week’s closing share price.
The Prudential spin-out has hired former Terra Firma analyst Klaus Maurer.
The mid-market European fund of funds will invest the vehicle in Central and Eastern Europe, special situations and growth capital funds.
The Munich-based firm founded by former 3i executives has raised €96m to date for its debut fund.
The Cairo-based private equity firm is raising $500m for its first institutional fund.
Limited partners will have louder voices on issues including deal fees and fund sizes, Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein said at a conference today. He also gave 15 reasons why the financial crisis has been good for private equity.
KKR co-founder Henry Kravis has said firms in today’s tough financial climate have to ‘think outside the box’ and adapt strategies to capitalise on current market opportunities or risk being ‘left out’. He was echoed by Apollo chief Leon Black, who likened big take-privates to the extinct dodo bird.
John Barber, head of the financial services firm’s longest-standing in-house private equity arm, will leave the firm. It is the latest in a long string of changes to Citi’s alternative investment platform, which currently includes three active private equity groups.