by Sebastian | Jan 1, 2021 | News
BlackRock planned to shake up the private-equity world with a $12 billion fund. Now the asset-management giant is setting its sights lower. BlackRock’s staffers conceded the target was unrealistic after struggling to meet fundraising goals. The firm’s staffers hope to...
by Sebastian | Jan 1, 2021 | News
Coronavirus-spurred growth in the technology sector will help drive M&A activity in the Asia Pacific next year, bankers and lawyers predict, with the potential easing of Sino-U.S. tensions likely to revive Chinese outbound investment. Deals involving Asia Pacific...
by Sebastian | Dec 31, 2020 | News
The Priory rehabilitation clinic, favoured by celebrities trying to achieve sobriety or tranquillity, has been sold to a private equity firm for £1.08bn to create one of the world’s largest private mental health services providers. The famous Roehampton clinic in...
by Sebastian | Dec 31, 2020 | News
Recently Cebile Capital released its 2020 Year-End Secondaries Market Update, which summarises key trends witnessed in 2020 and outlook for 2021 from secondaries investors. Cebile surveyed over 95% of the active secondaries investors globally to gain insight into...
by Sebastian | Dec 31, 2020 | News
Almost every court hearing in the JCPenney bankruptcy case mentioned a fact that, on its face, seems unrelated to the case itself: that the retailer’s successful resolution would save 60,000 jobs. The idea, it seemed, was to drive home the point that the death of...
by Sebastian | Dec 30, 2020 | News
Solid waste and recycling companies completed a series of mergers and acquisitions throughout 2020 despite economic disruptions from COVID-19-related shutdowns. Following the first wave of uncertainty as COVID hit the United States in Q1, Michael E. Hoffman,...
