Toby Mitchenall
Toby Mitchenall is the Senior Editor for private equity at PEI Media. He is responsible for and regular contributor to the private equity coverage across Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor and private funds management and is based in PEI’s London office. Toby was previously a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.
Private placement veteran Clive Norton, who joined Jefferies Helix in 2007, has jumped ship to join European mid-market fund Englefield Capital.
The listed private equity firm has sold its remaining stake in Dutch business Dockwise to a consortium of investors including Bain Capital’s credit arm, Sankaty.
After his very public departure from Alchemy Partners, Jon Moulton has set up turnaround-focused Better Capital right on his old firm’s doorstep.
The body that drafted the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers says it did so ’without much time to consult’. Meanwhile Richard Wilson, chairman of EVCA, is urging more LPs to voice their concerns over the proposed new rules.
The situation at PAI does not signify wider large cap woes, writes Toby Mitchenall.
Advent hopes to capitalise on the highly fragmented German debt collection market with the purchase of GFKL Financial Services.
As stakeholders discuss what to do with the firm’s suspended €3bn 2008 fund, Candover has lost control of laboratory business ALcontrol to GSO Capital.
The alternatives giant has completed its merger with its listed affiliate KPE. From tomorrow its shares will be traded on Euronext under the name KKR & Co.
After a year in which almost half of them scaled back their allocations to listed private equity stocks, wealth managers in Europe are starting to look again.
Against a ‘fragile’ economic backdrop, the listed firm continues to sell assets and invest only in existing portfolio companies.