Isobel Markham
Isobel Markham is Editor of Private Equity International, overseeing the editorial content of the monthly magazine and contributing news and analysis for PrivateEquityInternational.com. Based in New York, Isobel works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI Media’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
The South African powerhouse is using a listed feeder vehicle as a springboard for its transition from a pure-play private equity house to sub-Saharan Africa’s leading alternative asset management platform.
Founder and managing partner Thierry Baudon is stepping into an executive chairman role after 17 years, as Robert Knorr and Matthew Strassberg take over as co-managing partners.
Once raised, the vehicle will commit to three of Johannesburg-based Ethos’ current offerings, including its newly launched credit strategy, and will buy a secondary stake in the firm’s existing sixth fund.
Private Equity International’s post-Brexit survey finds investors are backing away from the UK.
Here are the key issues the UK private equity industry would like new UK Chancellor Philip Hammond to tackle.
The Guy Hands-led firm is offloading the cinema chain in a £921m deal after a 12-year hold.
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The buyout house is no longer offering LPs the choice to opt into a deal-by-deal style waterfall in a portion of its latest fund.
Caroline Dent joined the UK firm’s four-strong in-house operations team in 2009.
The firm has acquired neuraxapharm in Germany and Invent Farma in Spain as it looks to consolidate the European generics market.
The firm is positioning itself for ‘material expansion’ in the US and deeper involvement in the credit fund space.