Bulked-Up RBC Capital Pursuing Bigger Clients
May 3, 2010 RBC Capital Markets, which aggressively expanded its staff over the past 12 months, has moved beyond its traditional...

Advent Targeting Payment Processors
April 26, 2010 Advent International, a Boston private-equity firm founded in 1984, has shifted from its initial plan of investing in troubled...

PE Turning to Joint Ventures to Overcome Debt Shortage
March 8, 2010 With debt financing still tough to come by, private-equity investors are teaming up with deep-pocketed corporations to find...

EU Private-Equity Plan Worries U.S. Firms
February 12, 2010 Proposed European Union regulations have U.S. private-equity players buzzing. Most private-equity players acknowledge that if...

Bank Deals Easier for PE With Ex-Regulators' Help
December 10, 2009 Getting through regulatory hurdles is a tough slog for many private-equity firms that want to buy or start banks, but some...

Regional Banks Taking Role in Funding Small-Firm M&A
November 17, 2009 A growing number of smaller banks are looking to finance transactions in a market long dominated by giants like Bank of...

Agents of Blame
October 1, 2009 The private equity industry unites against a new SEC measure that could ban the raising of capital from pension plans by...

Bank PE: Back to the Future?
September 14, 2009 Banks with private-equity businesses could realize a boon on rebounding capital markets and possibly have the upper hand on...

A Starring Role for IP?
August 4, 2009 As the securitization market comes back to life, private-equity firms are finding deal flow in intellectual property. Will the...