Private Equity/LBO News

Shoes For Crews will use its recent equity infusion to go after new customers in Europe and Latin America, according to Steven Collins, a principal at Advent International.

While a host of big name buyout firms are scrambling to invest in Chinese companies, others are increasingly looking to the middle kingdom to grow or improve their portfolio of U.S.... 2004-07-12

Lawyers representing private equity firms are concerned about unintended consequences from a pending Securities and Exchange Commission rule proposal that would require hedge funds... 2004-07-12

Mezzanine fund JZ Equity Partners will end up making a profit on an investment it made 11 years ago in a tape manufacturer following last week's $87.5 million U.S. Supreme Court anti-trust... 2004-07-05

Speedy execution helped ICV Capital Partners win the recent auction for Innovative Creative Packaging Solutions, according to Ed Bagdasarian, managing director at Barrington Associates... 2004-06-21

Riordan, Lewis & Haden, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm founded by Richard Riordan, the city's former mayor and now California's secretary of education, is narrowing in... 2004-06-21

Key Principal Partners expects to add three new companies to its portfolio by mid-July, according to John Sinnenberg, managing partner at the $1 billion-plus mezzanine lender funded... 2004-06-21

Bluefire Security Technologies has completed its series "C" funding round, receiving $10 million in new equity.

Grand jury subpoenas are being handed out to investment banks, regarding private investment in public equities (PIPEs), according to Compliance Reporter, a CFW sister publication.

Heritage Partners has shelved plans to raise fund IV and received permission from the majority of its investors to extend by a year the investment period for Heritage Partners III--an... 2004-06-07