Steve Gelsi

Firm sells Northeast Dental Management to Harvest-backed Dental Care Alliance Sentinel purchased company in 2012 with capital from Fund IV Sentinel promotes head of business development to partner Sentinel Capital Partners has exited Northeast Dental Management in a sale to Harvest Partners-backed Dental Care Alliance for an undisclosed sum after more than doubling the company’s office base in less than […]

Firm: Harvest Capital Fund: Harvest Partners Structured Capital Fund LP Target: $400 mln Amount raised: $243.5 mln Placement Agent: Park Hill Group Harvest Partners drew in $244 million for its first structured capital fund, which makes non-control investments in middle-market companies, about 14 months after the New York firm launched the business, according to a […]

Firm: DW Healthcare Partners Fund: DW Healthcare Partners IV LP Target: $350 mln Amount raised: At least $194 mln Placement Agent: Credit Suisse DW Healthcare Partners held a first close on $194 million for its fourth fund, which is targeting $350 million for lower-middle-market healthcare deals, according to a public filing and a source. DW Healthcare Partners […]

Firm: Cinven Partners LP Fund: The Sixth Cinven Fund LP Target: $6 bln   Cinven may close its sixth flagship fund sooner than expected in the first half of 2016, as the London-based firm touts a top-quartile performance in at least one prior fund, according to sources. Cinven originally expected to wrap up Fund VI […]

Firm: CD Capital Fund: CD Capital Natural Resources Fund III Target: $400 mln Amount raised: $233 mln Placement agent: FirstPoint Equity CD Capital has drawn in $233 million in commitments for CD Capital Natural Resources Fund III, which is targeting $400 million, according to a filing. The London-based private equity firm founded in 2006 by mining […]

Theater chain grows cash flow by more than 45 percent 12-state movie chain bought by AMC Entertainment Price tag is $175 mln Trinity Hunt Partners said its recently closed $175 million sale of Starplex Cinemas to AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc came after it grew the movie theater chain by adding five new locations and offering […]

GPs eye pent up demand for M&A Dry powder building up, with fewer deals Valuations seen leveling off   Investment banker Jeffrey Golman sees pent up demand for deals in 2016 as private equity firms that placed second, third or fourth in auctions scour the landscape for acquisition targets. “Our pipeline is mostly indicative of […]

A specialist in executive coaching, training for presentations and helping private equity firms thrive, Steve Giglio has worked with more than 20,000 pros from the ranks of alternative investments and corporate America since launching his practice in 1989. He also penned the 2003 book “Beating the Deal Killers … Overcoming Murphy’s Law (and other Selling Nightmares).” Nowadays, Giglio is […]

1. As managing director on Hamilton Lane’s Co-Investment Team, can you tell us how the firm approaches co-investing and if it would consider a direct investment? We don’t generally do directs. With our co-investment strategy we’re investing directly into companies alongside GPs as co-investors — not to compete, but to be good partners. We’ll live as […]

1. As managing director on Hamilton Lane’s Co-Investment Team, can you tell us how the firm approaches co-investing and if it would consider a direct investment? We don’t generally do directs. With our co-investment strategy we’re investing directly into companies alongside GPs as co-investors — not to compete, but to be good partners. We’ll live as […]