Private Equity

Just over a year after completing one of the largest buyouts since the financial crisis with private equity backing, Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell is taking something of a bow.

Strategic Value Partners, a leading global investment firm focused on distressed and deep value opportunities, has appointed José Barreiro to its advisory council.

Bain Capital’s fundraising for this year has reached 11 figures, with the closing of its fourth European private-equity fund.

Carlyle Group LP is gathering as much as $5 billion for a fund that can hold stakes in companies for as long as 20 years, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

Private-equity firms are moving to clean up their disclosure practices in the wake of criticism from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

If Warren Buffett treats his companies like masterpieces, David Rubenstein treats his like, well, better masterpieces.

Warburg Pincus isn’t worried that clients feel they are getting a raw deal without a performance-fee hurdle, a top executive said this week.

Under fire over allegations that political contributions impacted his decision-making, the private-equity executive at the helm of the New Jersey State Investment Council has stepped down.

The Blackstone Group has asked the U.S. government to review its $1.95 billion deal to sell New York’s landmark Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to a Chinese insurer.

U.S. private equity firms have done well in the life insurance sector since the financial crisis, but that ride may be coming to an end.