Private equity pros should start seeing some new faces at investment banks. Peter J. Solomon Co. is looking to hire senior bankers and recently added Mark Boidman and Brad Weinberg.

Rare Element Resources has appointed Lowell A. Shonk, a financial professional with more than 30 years of experience in the mining industry, to its board of directors. He will also serve as the board’s audit committee chair. Shonk is the vice chairman of Cupric Canyon Capital, a private equity company in partnership with Barclays Capital focused on investing in early stage copper projects worldwide.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group filed with US regulators to add 18 underwriters to the list of managers of its proposed initial public offering, writes Reuters. The company added Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, BoFA Merrill Lynch, UBS and 12 others to its underwriters for the IPO. Reuters – Private equity firm [...]

Global entertainment company Lionsgate is acquiring theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio Summit Entertainment for $412.5 million. JP Morgan, Barclays Capital, and Jefferies served as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners on financing the acquisition for Lionsgate. PRESS RELEASE Lionsgate LGF (“the Company”) and Summit Entertainment today announced that Lionsgate has completed [...]

Lenders to Endemol look set to take over the Dutch TV show producer in a debt-for-equity swap, rejecting Time Warner‘s new 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) bid, writes Reuters. Silvio Berlusconi’s Mediaset, Goldman Sach’s Capital Partners and Cyrte Investments agreed to buy Endemol in 2007 for 2.6 billion euros. Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, [...]

Four new underwriters are supporting the initial public offering of BrightSource Energy, a solar company, according to a new version of the company’s prospectus filed with regulators. Barclays Capital, Lazard Capital Markets, Robert W. Baird & Co. and Raymond James & Associates have joined the underwriting consortium, which is led by Goldman Sachs & Co., Citigroup Global Markets and Deutsche Bank Securities, the filing shows.

Del Monte Corp. and Barclays Capital have agreed to pay $89.4 million to shareholders to settle a lawsuit stemming from the company’s $4 billion takeover. Investors claimed that Barclays, in advising Del Monte on the sale, had a conflict of interest because it was also arranging financing for the private equity buyers in the deal. KKR led the consortium of investors who bought the company earlier this year.

Barclays Capital has hired Andrew Richards away from Morgan Stanley, and named him head of the bank’s private equity coverage in Asia Pacific, Reuters reported Friday. Richards will be a managing director at Barcap, and fill the void left by Takumi Tanaka, who left the firm earlier this year.

(Reuters) – Intermolecular Inc. filed with U.S. regulators on Friday to raise $200 million in an initial public offering of its common stock. The company develops proprietary technology and intellectual property through paid collaborative development programs with its customers in the semiconductor and clean energy industries. Intermolecular said in its S-1 filing that it has [...]

The private equity owners of German outdoor apparel and equipment maker Jack Wolfskin decided not to sell the company after failing to attract high enough offers, Reuters reported. Barclays Capital and Quadriga Capital had hoped to attract more than 800 million euro for the company, Reuters reported. Some bidders had offered to pay north of 600 million euro, Reuters said.