Buyout firm Silver Lake disclosed on Friday that it sold its stake in AMC Entertainment Holdings for $713 million this week, capitalizing on a 10-fold rise in the price of the shares as traders organizing on social media platforms such as Reddit snapped them up. The...
Roark Capital, an Atlanta-based private equity firm focused on investing in franchised businesses, has raised $5 Bn for new fund. This will be the firm’s sixth flagship fund and follows a $1.4 billion raise in April 2020. Midmarket private-equity firm Roark...
Britain should replicate New York’s “blank cheque” listings to boost London’s appeal as a global financial centre after Brexit, London Stock Exchange Chief Executive David Schwimmer said. After cementing its $27 billion acquisition of data and analytics company...
In July 2020, Apperio research revealed the commercial realities facing Private Equity legal leaders for the first time. The study, based on a survey of 100 PE senior legal stakeholders in the US and UK with an average of more than $10 billion under management across...
74% of PE legal leaders are seeking to optimize legal spend in 2021. Does your firm have the right data, technology and processes to achieve this? This report examines a study of 160 private equity legal leaders across the US and UK to uncover the roles,... 