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Amanda Fulmor Good has joined buyout shop Searchlight Capital Partners as partner and head of global value creation, responsible for improving the performance of such well-known holdings as Cengage Learning, Rackspace, and Univision.

Previously a partner at London-based buyout shop HgCapital, New York City-based Good (pictured) immediately marks herself as a force to watch in the U.S. private equity market. Not only is she a female partner in an industry that has too few women partners. She’s also leading a trend in which more and more buyout firms are hiring teams of consultants and operators dedicated to value creation.

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Fundraising Round-up, Preview of April 16 Edition of Private Equity Career News

**** New York City-based AUA Private Equity, which backs companies serving the Hispanic population, and which has close ties to Goya Foods, secures $310.8 million for a second fund, with help from placement agents Atlantic-Pacific Capital of Stamford, Connecticut and Probitas Fund Group of San Francisco. That’s according to a regulatory filing. Try Managing Partner Andy Unanue.

**** New York City-based The Firmament Group, a provider of debt and equity to small and medium-sized companies, raises $130.5 million from 27 investors for Firmament Capital Partners SBIC III LP, according to a regulatory filing. Elm Capital Associates Ltd of London pitched in on sales. Try Allie Reitman, head of administration and people.

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PrivateEquityCareer.com, publisher of Private Equity Career News, the weekly newsletter written by David M. Toll (pictured), has launched its first employee compensation survey.

For employees working on the deal-making or administrative sides of PE shops, the study will provide accurate salary, bonus, and carry data with which to benchmark your compensation. It will also cover a host of other components of compensation, from co-investment programs to 401Ks.

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The Company

Boyne Capital is a rapidly growing Florida-based private equity firm focused on investments in lower-middle-market companies. Founded over a decade ago, we have invested in over twenty platform and thirty add-on investments. We are actively deploying our second committed fund.

We are a collaborative organization committed to inclusivity, innovation, and above all, trust and respect. It’s what has made us so successful. We believe in a more human approach to investing, both in and out of the office.

We’ve built a firm that prizes the intrinsic value of the work and the people who work here, over the formalities and pretenses of the corporate world. We’re a team eager to foster growth and development—to recognize each other’s successes and promote from within. As a result, we’ve created an open and supportive workplace of hard-working, highly qualified professionals who care just as much about each other as we do our portfolio companies.

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