Nicholas Donato

The UK-listed firm has hired leveraged finance veteran Rob Reynolds to lead its credit-focused fund.

A switch to a ‘first-inventor-to-file’ system, versus the existing ‘first-to-invent’ practice, means GPs need to be on the ball when it comes to portfolio companies applying for patents.

Up to £2.3trn of assets could be ‘ring-fenced’ from bank’s riskier wholesale investment functions, including loans to private equity firms.

A widened US court case against some of the buyout industry’s biggest names is raising questions over the legality of joint-bidding.

Spain’s private equity community is anticipating a more business-friendly government as the conservative People's Party is expected to dethrone the Socialists from power in November.

Private equity managers can strategically execute “Material Adverse Change” clauses to renegotiate deals in their favour – though doing so brings significant reputational risk.

US regulators have charged two Florida men with duping more than 100 investors into a Ponzi scheme disguised as private equity funds, one of which was known as the 'Safe Harbor Private Equity Fund'.

Non-EU fund managers have been provided a brief window to submit their feedback on how EU regulators are proposing to supervise their access to EU institutional investors.

Cerberus’ abandoned deal to acquire US hotel chain Innkeepers may signal a return of firms exercising Material Adverse Change or Material Adverse Effect Clauses in response to global market uncertainty.

Brazilian managers have been employing unique fund terms to appease the crowd of investors eager to take stakes in the country, according to Debevoise & Plimpton partners Erica Berthou (pictured) and Peter Furci.