Jennifer Harris
The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management will merge Performance Food Group with their portfolio company Vistar Food.
Evan Marks and Victor Cohen come to Vestar Capital from WebMD Health Corporation and Capital Z/Union Square Partners, respectively.
The Carlyle Group has added four to its West Coast offices, hiring two managing directors from Sevin Rosen and Pequot Capital, and transferring two executives internally.
The Private Equity Council has released a report that contradicts an academic study set to be presented at the Davos summit next week.
New York firm Braemar Energy Ventures has added a new principal, former Kauffman Fellow Jiong Ma.
Arsenal Capital Partners is the latest private equity shop to open an Asian office. It is the firm’s first office abroad.
The Robert Bass-led firm has upped its exposure to the online marketplace sector with an investment in Oversee.net.
One of mainland China’s four major banks will enter the private equity industry, providing fund management services for a new state-backed fund.
The San Francisco mid-market firm increased its dry powder to address opportunities in the post-subprime meltdown environment.
Israeli tech firm Infinity Equity has twice raised its final target for the Infinity I-China Fund, which will now seek $300 million.