The chairman of socially-minded investment firm Bridges Ventures yesterday won PEI Media’s inaugural Private Equity Leader Award 2008 for his work building Apax Partners and leading the drive behind social entrepreneurship.
The private equity arm of the fallen investment bank is ‘working aggressively’ to set up independent operations.
The publicly listed firm could target as much as €3bn for its first growth capital fund to raise third-party capital.
The Africa-focussed private equity shop has invested $15m in Blue Financial Services, a non-deposit taking micro lender.
The world’s second largest sovereign fund’s recently launched capital strategies group will also invest 5 percent of its assets in private real estate deals, but private equity is ‘not part of the investment universe’.
The world’s second largest sovereign fund’s recently launched capital strategies group will invest five percent of its assets in private real estate deals, but says private equity is ‘not part of the investment universe’.
The French insurance giant’s private equity arm has more than tripled its previous buyout fund and increased its geographic scope to include Italy.
The European buyout firm is set to take a 25% stake in Evonik, a German state-backed conglomerate that also reportedly interested US mega-firms KKR, Bain and Blackstone.
The Hong Kong firm targeting $100m for its Cambodia fund has raised $11m and is on the verge of closing its first deal.
The Texas private equity firm has purchased ‘certain operating assets’ from the US investment bank, which was sold last week to JPMorgan.
German company Novem, whose first management buyout was backed by Goldman Sachs and CVC Capital Partners, will change hands for the third time among private equity sponsors.
The US private equity firm will again provide rescue financing for a financial institution rocked by the subprime and corporate credit dislocations, this time agreeing to inject £179m in Bradford & Bingley.
The parent company of Indian private equity firm UTI Ventures is raising an Indian infrastructure fund with Shinsei Bank and HSH Nordbank.
The Dubai-based private equity firm is nearing the first close of its $200m MENA-focused hospitality fund, and has begun marketing another $530m fund specifically for Saudi Arabia.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has tapped former Goldman Sachs rainmaker Alain Carrier to lead private investments from its second international office opened this year.