The Blackstone Group has hired leveraged finance pro Vikrant Sawhney from Deutsche Bank.
Navis Capital Partners, the Asia-focussed buyout firm, has closed a fund more than triple the size of its previous fund, as the continent’s buyout firms prosper.
The UK private equity arm of Barclays Capital has closed its third European fund, having raising the entire capital from existing investors.
US pension giant CalPERS has launched a €400 million, Europe-focussed buyout initiative, to be managed by the private equity division of Scotland-based investment manager Standard Life Investments Group.
SVG, the London-based fund manager, increased its net asset value per share on the back of several realisations by UK buyout firm Permira in whose funds the majority of its capital is committed.
Former First Reserve director Craig Jarchow has been hired by Pine Brook Road, the New York firm led by former Warburg Pincus vice chairman, Howard Newman.
Noble Fund Managers has held the first close of its venture debt fund.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, RREEF and Loeb Realty are teaming up to acquire the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel for $93m.
Apollo Real Estate Advisors has hired Hollywood property pro Frank Buckley as the firm looks to bolster its operations on the West Coast.
The investment trust of Hg Capital reported strong results from realisations, while indicating it had £54 million in liquid resources to take advantage of market turbulence.
The UK's second largest pension fund the Universities Superannuation Scheme is demonstrating its appetite for alternatives with the appointment of two private equity specialists to lead its co-investment programme alongside its fund investments.
US- and Japan-focussed venture firm Globespan Capital has closed its fifth fund on $380 million.
US buyout firm The Carlyle Group has expanded its financial services team with a string of high profile appointments, after closing a real estate and a European fund last week.
The Blackstone Group has taken a minority stake in a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Chemical Corporation, as it continues to build relations with the Chinese government.
Rudy Scarpa has left Coller Capital, the secondaries firm founded by Jeremy Coller (pictured), to open rival Pantheon’s New York office.