Shareholders in SLM Corporation, the US student loan specialist popularly known as Sallie Mae, have approved the proposed USD25bn acquisition of the company by a private equity-led consort

Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners, a closed-ended private equity fund of funds investment company, has completed the initial public offering of its shares on Euronext Amsterdam, taki

Kensington Capital Partners, an independent Canadian private equity manager, has announced a commitment by the Kensington Global Private Equity Fund to Kilmer Capital Fund II, a Toronto-ba

Investment by private equity buyout firms into Canadian companies continued its record-setting pace during the second quarter, according to the industry’s quarterly statistical report from

The Federal Reserve injected some USD38bn into the US banking system, following similar moves by the central banks of Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan, in a bid to stabilise the bond ma

Radford, Virginia-based private equity and venture capital firm Third Security has announced the closing of its sixth and largest investment fund, New River Management V, with commitments

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the country’s financial regulator, has invited comment from market participants on new draft rules it has published that are intended to

APEI SGR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian investment firm I2 Capital, has announced the final close of I2 Capital Partners Fund at EUR200m, up from an initial target of EUR180m.

JMI Equity, a private equity firm exclusively focused on providing growth capital to software and business services companies, has announced the closing of its sixth fund, JMI Equity Fund

IP Group, a intellectual property commercialisation company, has completed a second closing of IP Venture Fund, a venture capital fund established in July 2006 in partnership with the Euro