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Buyouts analyzes the positions of the major presidential candidates to determine who’s best (and worst) for private equity Private equity doesn’t like to remember the year of 2012, when the industry was rudely thrust into the harsh glare of a presidential political season. The scar of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign may never truly heal, but the industry […]
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Webster Capital is putting Epic Health Services Inc up for sale, three sources said. Goldman Sachs will run the auction, which is expected to start in the second half of this year, one of the sources said. Epic could sell for $800 million, said a different source, a banker. Founded in 2001, Dallas, Texas-based Epic Health provides care to 42,800 […]
Gamut, fundraising
Gamut held a first close on $485 mln Fund I launched in late August Firm recently hired MD from Harvest Partners Gamut Capital Management held a first close on $485 million for its debut fund, according to a person with knowledge of the firm. That means Gamut Capital Management I is more than 60 percent […]
Private equity is dominating the auction of AssetMark Inc, which has hit the second round, five sources said. Moelis & Company and Raymond James are advising on the process, three of the sources said. Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners LLC own AssetMark, which produces $60 million of EBITDA. AssetMark is expected to fetch bids of $650 […]
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Does the stock market know something the rest of us don’t?  The S&P 500’s more than 9 percent drop from New Year’s through February 10 suggests that the United States’s seven-year trot of economic growth, however plodding, may be heading for a concrete wall. And fears of an imminent recession have real consequences. Financial buyers, for one, won’t […]
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Apollo Credit Opportunity Fund III generates a -18 pct return Firm lowers return target to 6 to 8 pct net Collapse in oil prices dragged down performance Apollo Global Management’s latest credit opportunities fund appears to have gone big into energy ahead of a precipitous drop in oil prices last year. Apollo was investing in […]
Torys LLP has released its much-anticipated Private Equity in Focus 2016 report. It considers how private equity deal-making in 2015 has set the stage for this year's transactions. Torys' report helps investment pros peer into what lies ahead in 2016 through three levels of focus: in the markets, in the deals, and in the terms.
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Carlyle Global Partners will hold companies for longer periods Firm also plans to buy back $200 mln worth of shares Q4 ENI drops to $72.7 million from $180.5 million in Q4 2014 Carlyle Group’s new Carlyle Global Partners fund raised $3 billion for its strategy of longer holding periods for portfolio companies. That was one of many pieces […]
Moelis Capital Partners’ auction of NAPA Management Services Corp has hit the final stages, four sources said. NAPA, an anesthesia and preoperative management company, is expected to sign a deal to sell itself in the next two weeks, two of the sources said. Buyout shops that made it to the auction’s advanced stages include KKR, Leonard Green […]
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David Li stepped down in January To form own company Julian Cheng and Frank Wei take over David Li, head of the Asia-Pacific region for Warburg Pincus, left the firm, a spokeswoman confirmed. Li resigned last month, a source said. He left to form his own company, Warburg said in a statement. He has been replaced by […]
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