People Moves

The firm has named a new head of global communications

The alternative investment firm has hired a former Capital One executive to lead its marketing efforts

The global private equity firm is in talks with its limited partners about the issue of liquidity in current markets

Salaries at private equity firms are holding steady or rising, although bonuses look set to fall

Fair value standards are loosened, but not suspended, in Europe

DIF, a Dutch infrastructure fund manager, is buying the additional stake in the public private partnership joint venture with Netherlands-based BAM Group through its €150m first fund, DIF PPP.

The New York-based mid-market buyout firm has acquired two hospital laundry companies to form Healthcare Laundry Systems in a ‘conservatively financed transaction’ that was more than a year in the making.

Private equity, real estate and infrastructure are the asset classes most likely to see increased allocations from LPs, according to a trio of recent studies.

Paolo Cantarella joins the 50-some operating partners who advise the global midmarket firm. The former Fiat chief currently is a non-executive director of Italian private equity real estate firm Inpartner and Italian utilities firm Iride.

Former chiefs of Blockbuster, PepsiCo and Pizza Hut will manage the fund for the Texas mid-market firm.