Bill Crossan, managing director of Close Growth Capital, says the first and second quarters of next year should see a reassessment of price expectations from vendors, creating opportunitie

The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has selected investment firms BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan as strategic partners to manage USD2.5bn in assets and provide support t

The majority (88 per cent) of chief executives are optimistic about the future of private equity, according to a survey by Notch Partners.

US venture capitalists are forecasting a difficult 2009 for the country’s economy, the capital markets and the venture industry, according to a survey by the National Venture Capital As

Neil MacDougall, managing partner of Silverfleet Capital, says the firm is well placed to thrive in 2009, with only one deal done in 2007 and a new fund to invest without any pre-credit cr

Macrovision Solutions has agreed to sell TV Guide Network to Allen Shapiro, a former president of Mosaic Media Group, and One Equity Partners for around USD255m, plus up to an additiona

Partners Group, the Switzerland based global alternative assets manager, has raised over USD1.1bn for its most recent Asia-Pacific programme, thereby exceeding the target size of USD1bn

Private equity solutions can co-exist with the US government’s Troubled Assets Relief Program in providing capital to the banking industry, according to Joshua Siegel, managing principa

US business development firm Distribution Management Consolidators has announced the launch of DMC Capital Funding, a private equity growth capital firm.

Ross Marshall, chief executive of Dunedin Capital Partners, says the industry winners next year will be private equity houses that did not overpay