Columbia Business School has established a new Private Equity Program (PEP) under the direction of Professor Laura Resnikoff.

Battered San Francisco real estate investment trust Luminent Mortgage Capital said this week it has repaid roughly USD1bn in warehouse lines of credit.

Jonathan Miller, former Chairman and CEO of America Online (AOL), and Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive Media (FIM) at News Corp, have become advisors to private equity f

Curt Selquist, a former company group chairman with Johnson & Johnson, has joined the Water Street Healthcare Partners, a Chicago private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthc

Catalyst Investors, a private equity fund with a focus on media, telecommunications and related Internet services, has announced the final closings of two funds — Catalyst Investors II, L

Venture capital trust manager Close Venture is to make a GBP6.5 million investment in the 19 bedroom Stanwell Hall hotel, situated a mile from the new Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow airpo

The State of New Jersey has teamed up with global investment bank Lehman Brothers to form the New Jersey Directed Investment Fund (NJDIF), a USD105 million private equity vehicle designed

Dallas-based private equity firm Insight Equity I LP has closed on its USD160.2m acquisition of DURA’s Atwood Mobile Products division.

The French venture capital firm, Alven Capital has held its first closing on a third generation fund at EUR80 million within six months of fundraising.

The Blackstone Group is to invest up to USD600 million in a 20 per cent stake of China National Bluestar (Group) Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ChemChina.