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Jack Nicklaus once described the job of a PGA caddy this way: “Show up, keep up and shut up.”
It has already been an active year for buyout-backed IPOs. January saw Norwegian Cruise Lines, Bright Horizons, TRI Pointe Homes and USA Compression Partners go public. And with several slated to go public in the coming weeks, it seems that private equity firms are generating a lot of exits these days. Or are they?
Firm: TowerBrook Capital Partners Fund: TowerBrook Investors IV Target: $3 billion Amount Raised: $3.5 billion TowerBrook Capital Partners has closed its fourth fund at $3.5 billion, the firm announced. Sister Web site peHUB reported in 2012 the firm would raise its next fund for about $3 billion. TowerBrook’s 2001 fund generated a 3.00x multiple, the […]
Online retailers have been darlings of the venture world for nearly two decades. Now private equity investors are selectively starting to go shopping there.
Steve Cowan, managing director of fund of funds investor 57 Stars, speaks here about the firm’s focus on investing in mid-market corporate finance in emerging markets around the world.
Martin Day, a partner at Caledon Capital Management, discusses how the Toronto-based firm designs customized accounts for small and mid-size pension funds, focusing on private equity and infrastructure investments.
Vindicated in SEC inquiry Teton Capital to use ’family money’ Sokol tainted by inside trade charge In the wake of an SEC inquiry that concluded former Warren Buffett lieutenant David Sokol wasn’t guilty of insider trading, Sokol stated in an interview with Fox Business that he is launching a private equity firm, to be called […]
Matt Denblayker, director of research at Larry Thompson & Associates, discusses the Dallas-based firm’s work as an “outsourced CIO” for endowments, foundations and family offices.
Jessica Reed Saouaf, managing director at Hall Capital Partners, talks about the services her firm offers to foundations, family offices and other clients as an outsourced CIO across private equity and other alternative asset classes.
Joncarlo Mark, the managing member of Upwelling Capital Group, talks about the startup advisory firm’s vision to promote an even more vigorous secondary market for limited partnership interests.