Expansion Capital Partners, LLC, has announced the final closing for the firm’s Clean Technology Fund II, LP with more than USD100,000,000.

Globespan Capital Partners has closed its fifth fund, Globespan Capital Partners V, LP, with commitments of USD380 million.

The investment profits of private equity firms are fairly taxed as long-term capital gains because private equity partners act as owners, not employees; bear significant economic risks; ho

TXU Corp’s shareholders have approved the USD32bn buyout by Texas Energy Future Holdings, formed by a group of investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group.

Ventech has announced the closing of its third Venture Capital Fund – Ventech Capital III – at EUR150m as targeted.

Six senior investment professionals have joined the Carlyle Group’s recently-formed Global Financial Services Group.

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