Drum Capital Management, a $1.1 billion private equity fund of funds shop, is launching a $500 million fund to invest in the credit and turnaround space.
Special Situation Partners III will debut next month, taking over where Special Situations II, which is 86% invested, left off, according to US Financial News.
In an interview, CEO Scott Vollmer, the dislocation sparked by the credit crunch has caught out numerous companies in the aftermath of excessive leveraged buyout markets.
Vollmer founded Drum Capital in April 2005.
Genna GarverBy Genna Garver, John Brunjes, and Cheri Hoff of Bracewell & Giuliani -- On Oct. 27 the Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009 (H.R. 3818) moved one step closer to becoming law with the 67-1 approval of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services (the "Bill"). More...
Investors this week announced the formation of NewWorld Capital Group, a private equity firm that will invest in middle-market companies and related infrastructure projects in the cleantech sphere. More...