Suzanne Weinstock
The DLJ spin-out has sold its 100 percent holding in Catamount Energy after purchasing the company for $76m in 2005. Catamount operates a 300-megawatt wind farm in Texas and holds 1,750-megawatts in developmental interests in the UK and US.
Former ABC Broadcasting president Robert Callahan and former Altria Group chief financial officer Dinyar Devitre have joined the global growth equity firm to identify and advise portfolio companies.
The Shariah-compliant venture firm has invested in Aspen Aerogels along with Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Reservoir Capital Group and Rockport Capital Partners.
Client services head Jeanine Neumann has died following a battle with cancer. She spent 22 years at the Boston middle-market private equity firm.
The New York Common Retirement Fund, the third largest in the US, has made public recent commitments to CVC Capital Partners’s recently closed mega-fund and Leichtman Capital Partners mid-market fund, which is targeting $1bn.
The Seoul High Court has reversed a lower court's decision that convicted the US private equity firm of manipulating the stock price of the credit card division of the Korea Exchange Bank; the decision brings Lone Star one step closer to a $6.3bn sale of its stake to HSBC.
An investor group has completed the purchase of ConAgra Foods’ commodity trading group in a deal including $2.2bn in cash.
African Global Capital, a private equity fund backed by Och-Ziff, Palladino Holdings and Mvelaphanda Holdings, has agreed to up its stake in Coal of Africa from 9.1 percent to 26.4 percent for £138.75 million.
Guggenheim Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Guggenheim Partners, has expanded its fixed income offerings with the launch of a ‘whole loan’ group.
The global private equity firm has partnered with two medical technology executives to target acquisitions in the healthcare sector.