The private equity CEO with a fearsome reputation skates on the edges of other people’s catastrophes and manages to walk away richer. Leon Black, the most feared man in the most aggressive realm of finance, wants you to know he’s misunderstood. Not about the feared...
Wynnchurch Capital, L.P. (“Wynnchurch”), a leading middle market private equity firm, announced the closing of its fifth private equity fund, Wynnchurch Capital Partners V, L.P (“the Fund”) at $2.277 billion of committed capital. The Fund, which had a...
There’s plenty of money raised for impact investing but firms are struggling to find deals Buyout groups have bought into impact investing in a big way. Globally, the industry more than doubled the amount it raised for impact investing in 2019, reaching £5.4bn,...
Siccar Point Energy Ltd., the North Sea oil producer backed by Blackstone Group Inc., has received final bids from suitors including Chrysaor Holdings Ltd. and Equinor ASA, people with knowledge of the matter said. Canada’s Suncor Energy Inc., Chinese oil major Cnooc...
Several funds have been encouraged to move into Italy for the first time, spurred by some positive economic and political developments Private equity groups have been averse to investing in Italy for several years as the economy faltered and political tensions kept... 