A question is vexing the minds of institutional investors: how much – if any - of my European portfolio should be in the East? Andy Thomson reports.
The Washington DC-based private equity firm has unveiled a three-strong Indian buyout investment team, who will ply their trade out of Mumbai.
The London-listed global private equity firm has stepped up its limited partner activities with a substantial investment in I2, a UK-based infrastructure fund.
The global venture capital firm says its $45m investment in Nimbus is the largest ever private equity investment in the Indian media and entertainment industry.
Michael Kim, the former co-head of Asian buyouts at Carlyle Group, has quickly amassed $750 million of commitments for his spinout fund MBK Partners, according to a report.
As the private equity arm of Henderson Global Investors gears up for the launch of its second pan-Asian growth capital fund it has announced the doubling of its money in Singapore-based MagiNet.
The global private equity firm is demonstrating a penchant for investing in other firms’ funds. But don’t expect it to launch a fund of funds operation just yet, reports Andy Thomson.
Armed with its new €5.8bn buyout fund, pan-European LBO house BC Partners has hired Nikos Stathopoulos from Apax and Giampiero Mazza from Englefield.
The Group, a new United Arab Emirates private equity firm, has been set up to invest AED200m in the region.
The $32m financing of India’s largest private shipyard is the latest in a series of infrastructure-related deals that have seen domestic private equity funds scrambling for a slice of the action.
All is not peace and harmony between Russia and the US in Europe’s Black Sea region. But investment groups from the two countries have joined forces to prove that co-operation is possible when money – not politics – is the motivation. Andy Thomson reports.
The UK mid-market private equity firm has announced changes to its senior management team, with Chris Dowling stepping down as managing partner.
Days after the official launch of Blackstone’s $11bn fund, BC Partners has closed the largest-ever European buyout fund on “over €5.5bn”.
TDR Capital has completed its fifth investment with the acquisition of modular buildings supplier Elliott Group for £166m.
The recent announcement that UK pension fund Railpen has set aside four percent of total assets for allocation to hedge funds should come as no surprise: it has always been an adventurous investor. Andy Thomson reports.