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New Report: Private Equity Invested $99 Billion in U.S. Businesses in First Half of 2018
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Investment Council (AIC) released its 2018 Q2 Industry Investment Report that shows private equity invested $99 billion into U.S. businesses in the first half of…
How I Built This… with help from Private Equity Investment (Part 2)
National Public Radio’s (NPR) popular How I Built This podcast series highlights nearly a hundred entrepreneurs and business owners who have transformed an innovative idea into a successful…
Private Equity Holds Record Levels of Dry Powder
WASHINGTON – The U.S. private equity industry has amassed $353 billion of dry powder as of December 2017, according to the American Investment Council’s (AIC) 2018 Q2 Private Equity Trends…
How I Built This… with help from Private Equity Investment
National Public Radio’s (NPR) popular How I Built This podcast series highlights nearly a hundred entrepreneurs and business owners who have transformed an innovative idea into a successful…
ICYMI: AIC Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times
On July 22nd, the Financial Times ran the following letter to the editor from Emily Schillinger of the American Investment Council. The letter responds to a previous FT article…
New AIC Report Highlights Private Equity Investment Across the Country
WASHINGTON – The American Investment Council’s 2018 Top States and Districts Report shows the diverse…
Private Equity Across America: Philadelphia
The private equity industry employs millions of Americans and provides a secure retirement for schoolteachers, police officers, and other pension holders. The American Investment Council is now…
Private Equity Investments Outperform Markets Over the Long Term
WASHINGTON – Private equity returns once again outperformed public markets over the long term, net of fees, according to the latest quarterly Performance Update from the American Investment Council…
The American Investment Council Announces Drew Maloney as President and CEO
WASHINGTON – The American Investment Council (AIC) has named Drew Maloney as the association’s new president and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Maloney joins the AIC from the…
Investment Impact: Wrench Group CEO Explains How Private Equity Investment Creates Jobs, Strengthens Businesses
There are over 4,700 private equity firms all over America, owning and building approximately over 30,000 private companies. Recently, the Wrench Group…
Pensions
ICYMI: Klinsky Op-Ed in Cincinnati Enquirer – “Private Equity Investments Paying Off for Public Pensions”
Firefighters, school teachers, police officers and other public employees shouldn’t have to worry about their long-term retirement security. Happily, a new study shows that pension fund investment…
Debt Portability Can Deliver a Better Exit (Latham & Watkins LLP)
By Dennis Lamont, Partner and Howard Sobel, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP
Debt financing documents typically contain a change of control feature that triggers an event of default, or requires a…
Pensions
ICYMI in the Boston Globe: Private Equity Generates Record Returns for Massachusetts Pension Fund
By Jon Chesto
The Massachusetts state pension fund is tops in its field when it comes to picking winners in the difficult world of private equity investments.
The American Investment Council, a…
2018 AIC Public Pension Study: Private Equity Delivers Highest Returns for Public Pension Funds
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Investment Council (AIC) released its 2018 Public Pension Study, which analyzes investment returns by 163 U.S. public pension funds and highlights how private…
Legislative Priorities
CFIUS Reform
WHAT IS IT?
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is an interagency committee tasked with reviewing potential foreign investments in the U.S. and determining whether such…
Mehlman Expresses Appreciation for Sommers’ Strong Leadership at the AIC
Washington, D.C. – Today, American Investment Council (AIC) board member Ken Mehlman released the following statement of appreciation for Mike Sommers’ service as AIC President and CEO. Sommers…
ICYMI: Yale University’s Annual Endowment Report Strengthens Support for Private Equity
Yale Endowment Update 2017: “The alternatives of absolute return, private equity, venture capital, natural resources, and real estate provide not only diversification benefits, but also abundant…