Babcock & Brown, the Australian investment and advisory firm, has launched a co-investment vehicle with one of London’s most formidable corporate financiers at the helm. By Andy Thomson.
The UK government-owned emerging markets investor has announced commitments of more than $100m to four separate African private equity vehicles.
Former director at Adams Street Partners Ronan Cunningham is joining Ireland’s National Pension Reserve Fund to head up its new €3bn private equity programme.
Audax Group, Bain Capital and Commonwealth Capital Ventures have exited financial services technology firm Macgregor in a $230m sale.
The first closings of Abraaj Capital’s second buyout fund on $300m and Shuaa Partners’ debut vehicle on $160m indicate strong investor appetite in the Middle East for local private equity.
The European mid-market firm has closed its first independent fund since spinning out from HSBC bank in 2003, backed by a range of global institutions.
With plans to invest in Hungary and other CEE countries, Euroventures has held a final close of a €51m fund backed by local and European institutional investors.
Australia’s Macquarie Bank and a private equity affiliate have won the auction of BBC Broadcast, the digital media services arm of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
The Boston-based private equity firm has closed two new funds on more than $3.3bn.
The team that spun out from Coller Capital in 2004 has announced the close of its debut private equity secondary fund on €52m.
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.
Pension funds invested over $62bn in alternative asset classes during 2004, including $30bn in real estate and $17bn in private equity FoFs according to a new report.
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.
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.