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John Ford will be assisting the public relations firm on an as-needed basis to support its international expansion.

Levine Leichtman, HM Capital, Access Capital and Falconhead Capital will pay a total of $4.5m to settle with the New York attorney general’s office.

The $185bn pension's latest move to reduce fees paid to GPs includes backing the Institutional Limited Partners Association’s new terms and conditions guidelines.

The Silver Lake- and TPG-backed company won out over a joint venture between Siemens and The Gores Group, despite protests from creditors including MatlinPatterson.

Draft guidance from the US accounting rules body would require private equity CFOs to document multiple potential valuations for portfolio investments.

Few private equity firms have undergone thorough and expensive SAS 70 audits. But as the asset class matures and firms, especially multi-platform players, become bigger and more diverse, this yearly check on controls might become the standard in the US.

The London-based firm has strengthened its bench after its seventh fund dramatically increased its AUM this year.

The US banking regulator scaled back its proposed rules, easing certain requirements that had attracted industry criticism including Tier 1 leverage ratios.

The UK’s high court took a conservative approach to valuing the struggling company, which will wipe out the junior lenders and equity holders.

TPG is the first private equity firm to merge its portfolio companies into Blackstone’s new healthcare purchasing consortium, Equity Healthcare.