As the year draws to a close PEO's team has pulled out its crystal ball to take a view on 10 of the themes that will occupy the industry in 2008.
Mark Vickers, law firm Ashurst's debt specialist, talks frankly about the challenges ahead in the final week of PEO's Countdown to 2008.
HarbourVest's senior managing director is expecting longer holds for recent deals with a drop in IRRs and an increase in mid-market secondary buyouts.
The US energy specialist is bucking the buyout slowdown as it looks to growth in the booming oil market, where it has invested for more than 25 years.
As the furore surrounding private equity in the UK grew, the BVCA took pre-emptive action and commissioned an independent report on disclosure and transparency. Sir David Walker hopes his recommendations will be widely adopted in 2008.
Enterprise Investors will merge two Polish transportation businesses in a deal worth €34 million. The deal comes as Société Générale acquires a Polish baker.
The French bank's acquisition of Fornetti Wroclaw is the latest in a spate of deals in Central and Eastern Europe.
The chief executive of emerging markets investor CDC still believes there is money to be made, but managers will have to work harder to improve portfolio companies.
Financing is nearing completion for Blackstone’s first Ugandan deal, a hydroelectric project on the Victoria Nile.
An improved bid from Montagu Private Equity and its rival HgCapital has unlocked the UK waste company's books for due diligence.
Nigel McConnell's firm has made two and a half times its investment with the sale of outsourced support services business Global Solutions to a trade buyer.
The largest US pension fund has approved an increase to private equity, which will now be allocated 10 percent of CalPERS’ $250 billion portfolio.
The largest US pension fund has approved an increase to the asset class, which will now be allocated 10 percent of CalPERS’ $250bn portfolio.
Arif Naqvi, Abraaj Capital's chief executive, is looking forward to 2008 and continuing to invest in the development of the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region’s basic building blocks.
The frequent infrastructure investors are backing the management-led buyout of Waste Industries USA, a refuse and recycling company with operations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee.