Private Equity Info has upgraded its website with a more intuitive navigation, better visual appeal and faster load times.
A subscription to www.PrivateEquityInfo.com provides access to the entire data suite which consists of eight data modules:
Private equity
Hedge funds
Mezzanine
Small business investment companies
Valuation
M&A advisory
Senior lenders
Institutional real estate investors
Yesterday, The House Financial Services Committee passed H.R. 3818, the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act.
H.R. 3818 passed by a vote of 67-1 and was introduced by Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA), Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises.
H.R. 3818 would amend the Investment Advisers Act of [...]
Bulge-bracket is a term used in corporate finance to describe the largest and often most prestigious investment banks. Although there is no strict metric for this classification, bulge-bracket investment banks typically represent clients with transaction values in excess of $50 million. [NOTE: www.PrivateEquityInfo.com segregates investment banking firms by the enterprise value of the firms’ typical [...]
For each fund under management, private equity firms cycle through a multi-staged process of:
Fund raising from limited partners
Portfolio acquisition search
Investment
Growth
Divestment
Dispersal of funds back to limited partners
Fund Raising
Most private equity firms raise capital for a fund through investments made by limited partners - typically pensions, endowments, institutional funds, and high [...]
Mezzanine debt is subordinated debt that ranks between senior debt and equity. It is often a more expensive form of financing because it is unsecured (requiring no collateral) and subordinates to senior debt in case of a default.
Mezzanine debt can be used for a variety of purposes, but is generally used in corporate finance [...]
Private Equity Info has expanded its Real Estate Investor data module to include a powerful, new tool that will allow subscribers to keyword search the business descriptions of more than 700 real estate investors.
In addition to searching institutional real estate investors by location or investment focus, subscribers may now quickly identify those firms that present [...]
Private Equity Info expands database to include professional biographies for the Mezzanine Firm data module.
This data set includes the name, title, email address and professional bio of more than 800 mezzanine investor executives. We also implemented a new search engine on this data module to allow subscribers to keyword search these professional bios.
PrivateEquityInfo.com ranks the top 30 private equity firms in the world.
Senior lenders are typically commercial banks or other institutional lending firms that provide senior debt to corporations for a variety of purposes.
The recently launched Investment Adviser Act will require all Private Equity firms and other similar entities managing assets greater than $30 million to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as of June 2009.