Christopher Witkowsky
The New York-based secondaries firm plans to capitalise on an expanding secondary market in 2009 and 2010. Fund VII will invest mostly in the US, but also in emerging markets.
Creditors of bankrupt holding company Washington Mutual Inc., which once owned Washington Mutual Bank, are seeking a court order forcing the company to get written consent from the creditors before funding capital calls.
The New York-based mega-buyout shop will cut back on 5% of its roughly 1,400-member workforce. The news comes after the publicly listed firm reported steep losses in the third quarter.
The listed French private equity firm will have to partially write down its investment in Las Vegas casino operator, Station Casino, but it says its portfolio companies are taking necessary steps to weather the global financial storm.
The Massachusetts-based toy company has filed for Chapter 11 protection amid steep declines in sales, a result of the overall slowdown of consumer spending. Prentice Capital Management bought KB out of bankruptcy in 2004 from Bain Capital.
The Los Angeles-based private equity firm acquired most of the food product supplier’s debt for less than $200m after it filed bankruptcy earlier this year. Madison Dearborn Capital Partners bought Pierre for $422m in 2004.
The credit specialist is establishing a credit dislocation and a credit hedge fund to take advantage of the liquidity crisis in the US. The firm hired Mark Zusy, a former Lehman executive, and Sukai Liu for the New York office.
The $97bn pension, which has lost about $30bn since the end of June, increased the upper limit of its target private equity allocation to account for the denominator effect.
The California-based oil change service provider is selling its assets to its lenders, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone debt unit GSO Capital Partners, amid steep losses. The company blames the recession, high gas prices and negative publicity for its bankruptcy filing.
The private equity firm, formerly called Joseph Littlejohn & Levy, holds a 30% stake in the Canadian company.