Regulation

San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman has also announced the opening of a London office led by managing director Patrick Healy.

The UK mid-market buyout firm has held a final closing of its third fund, exceeding its £200m target and securing commitments from new international investors.

Sterling Capital Partners is backing the nationwide expansion of Florida Coastal School of Law, a for-profit law school.

The French private equity house has agreed to back a E100m buyout of the French technology components manufacturer, marking the firm’s eighth investment.

Apollo Management, Soros Private Equity Partners and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners have invested $350m to take a majority stake in Cablecom, the Swiss cable television company.

Delegates in London at the Private Equity COO & CFO Forum have revealed that relations with their limited partners have taken a darker turn.

Two US-educated Arab entrepreneurs have set up a $100m fund for investment in the reconstruction of Iraq.

Now that prospective investors in private equity funds are approaching the due diligence process with the same rigour as GPs have applied to target portfolio companies, there are some important infrastructure issues a GP has to address. Steven Millner of DML looks at what a GP has to do to make sure an LP is going to be satisfied.

The Japanese venture firm has announced the second cutback from one of its VC funds, the fifteenth reduction of its kind since the beginning of 2002.

The Finnish private equity investor has closed its latest split-focus fund on E253m, below the original target of E300m.