The €40 billion private equity investor has more than doubled its mezzanine mandate from its former pension fund parents, expanding its remit to include Europe and opening its London office.
The UK fund manager owned by insurance group Aviva is to put its experience of private equity fund investing at the disposal of its clients in a rolling programme of annual partnerships.
Actis, the emerging markets buyout firm, has made its first investment in Pakistan in nine years making a growth capital investment in ex-Halliburton oil and gas services company LMKR.
Zephyr Management has quadrupled its African fundraising efforts. The fund has a $250 million cornerstone investment from Saudi Arabian listed firm Kingdom Holding, led by prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud.
Silver Lake’s middle-market technology fund, currently reported to be raising an inaugural $1 billion, has done its first deal with the acquisition of mobile phone marketing company Mobile Messenger.
Central and eastern European buyout firm Enterprise Investors has made a ten times return on its partial exit from financial services company Magellan.
US bank Citi is considering backing a leveraged loan debt vehicle set up by US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to take advantage of the $300 billion leveraged loan backlog.
Gilde’s latest healthcare fund more than doubles assets under management, while continuing to target early stage deals.
Emerging Capital Partners, the pan-African buyout firm led by Tom Gibian, which started the trend towards regional funds on the continent, looks set to hit the fundraising trail just months after closing its latest fund.
The Belgian venture firm is blazing a trail in Europe with a dedicated clean technology fund as investment in the market surges globally to more than $1 billion in the first six months of the year.
The cash infusion is the third private equity investment in the Mumbai-based developer Lodha Group.
In a pre-close results statement published today, FTSE 100-listed 3i said its multi-strategy investment model will make it easier to deal with any fallout from the debt market turmoil.
Swedish buyout firm Litorina Kapital, led by Harold Kaiser, has held the final close of its latest fund two times oversubscribed despite losing cornerstone investor Swedbank.
Having recently reported an increase in value and growth in the region, the firm’s private equity real estate arm will launch an East Africa-dedicated fund, its fifth fund in the last two and a half years.
The Helsinki-listed alternative asset manager has beefed up its management group and created new internal services and investor services units.