Andy Thomson
Andy Thomson is a Senior Editor at PEI with responsibility for Private Debt Investor, the leading title focused on the world's private debt markets. Andy works closely with team members in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has been with PEI for many years, having worked previously on Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.
Not a moment too soon, the BVCA has released a study detailing private equity’s many successes in the UK. Philip Borel reports.
Oxford University’s Christ Church, St Catherine’s and Balliol colleges have pooled their resources to launch a £100m programme that will include private equity allocations.
ViaNova Capital, the London-based firm attempting to raise a debut ‘low-fee’ private equity fund of funds, has seen Edward Gander, one of its four co-founders, quit the fledgling firm.
A new vehicle established by the French subsidiary of global private equity firm Apax Partners has raised gross proceeds of just over €114m from its IPO on Euronext Paris.
Institutional investors are declining to reach for the brakes as the private equity train hurtles down the tracks. Andy Thomson reports.
The syndication of a $282m leveraged loan connected to a private equity investment in China’s Harbin Pharmaceutical appears to be struggling to attract support.
As a Citigroup-led consortium bids for an 85% stake in Guangdong Development Bank, China’s foreign ownership rules come under pressure. Andy Thomson reports.
ATP, the Danish pension fund that owns a 5.5% stake in TDC, has thrown the buyout of the Danish telecom firm into doubt by rejecting a private equity consortium’s bid.
The investment arm of the Government of Singapore has agreed to acquire 5% of China’s second-largest bank through the latter’s upcoming IPO, according to a report.
Anhui Conch has benefited from an anticipated recovery in the Chinese cement industry by securing a $200m investment from Morgan Stanley and the IFC.