From our June 2012 conference, a group of family office managers discuss issues facing these investors as they consider the private equity asset class.
Henry Kravis, co-chairman and co-CEO of KKR, was interviewed at Thomson Reuters’ PartnerConnect 2012 conference on April 3 by Stephen Adler, editor in chief of Reuters News. Here is a video of the 38-minute interview, followed by some snippets of what Kravis had to say about a host of topics. Humble Beginnings When KKR started […]
Christian Lund, Partner, Hamilton Robinson Capital Partners
Q&A with Robert Radway, Chairman And Chief Executive of NXT Capital
Buyout firms are tightening their focus on increasingly specialized niches as the industry matures and competition intensifies, Deepak Agrawal says. “People are looking for opportunities beyond what they’ve invested in in the past,” said Agrawal, a co-founder and managing director at Gotham Consulting Partners LLC. Energy investors may try to capitalize on developments in oil […]
Nahla A. Azmy has been named managing director of investor relations at Energy Capital Partners LP, based in Short Hills, N.J. Azmy was previously at NRG Energy, which announced that Chad S. Plotkin would succeed him there as vice president of investor relations. David Blechman has joined H.I.G. Capital as a managing director in the […]
Ted Forstmann, the billionaire private equity investor and philanthropist, died Nov. 21 of brain cancer. He was 71. He was viewed as a pioneer of the leveraged buyout and took over companies such as Dr Pepper and Gulfstream Aerospace through the private equity firm he co-founded, Forstmann Little & Co. He was also chairman and […]
Technology startups are enjoying a heyday in fundraising, but a scarcity of talent is driving a bidding war for superstars in Silicon Valley, according to a panel of venture capital experts.
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Video date: March 19, 2011
Virtual data rooms have become almost as ubiquitous in finance as Web sites, hosted by online specialists like Intralinks Inc. or deal-makers like Bank of America Merrill Lynch. So what makes a start-up in this crowded business stand out? In the case of Lightserve Corp., it comes down to rock bottom pricing. Too, the company’s […]
John Arlotta has joined General Atlantic as a special partner with a focus on the health care sector. Arlotta is former chairman and CEO of Coram Inc. and NeighborCare Inc. Jamie Bellanca, former vice president of advanced technology for Cleversafe, has joined Baird Private Equity as an entrepreneur-in-residence. The firm also announced that Lily Wang […]