The San Francisco private equity advisory firm has hired Adam Frieman from UBS for relationship management and liquidity management.
Vintage Venture Partners, an Israeli fund of funds and secondaries firm, has closed its third fund at $125 million.
Index Ventures has led a consortium investing in the internet retailer, Ozon.ru, in partnership with Russia’s biggest private equity firm, Baring Vostok.
Rockpoint Partners’ Jonathan Paul, who was part of the team that founded the firm after leaving Westbrook Real Estate Partners, is stepping down to pursue other interests.
At its third annual conference, INREV has named a new chairman, proposed new protocol for due diligence and released European fund returns for 2006.
The global investment bank’s chief executive has confirmed the firm’s private equity arm will target a $20 billion fundraising.
Half of UAE-based Khaleej Finance and Investment’s $200m Indian private equity fund will go into the country’s real estate sector.
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein has predicted more IPOs for private equity firms as they grow and their founders age, while Apollo founder Leon Black has acknowledged that his firm and virtually all others are considering public offerings.
The Silicon Valley venture firm has raised $435m for its ninth fund, on the way to a reported $600m target.
The Silicon Valley venture firm, renown for backing tech startups like eBay and Second Life, has hired former Electronic Arts vice president Mitch Lasky as its eighth partner.
John Leone has joined the US-based firm’s healthcare team, which recently lost three partners to Cowen Group’s new healthcare royalty group.
Qatar National Bank has teamed up with Oxford Capital Partners to found Qatar Capital Partners, which will back technology companies in Qatar.
The US buyout arm of Baird Private Equity has closed its $300m fourth fund, which will invest in mid-market business services and manufactured products companies.
Doubling its holdings in the Windy City, New York-based KTR Capital Partners has acquired 23 buildings near O’Hare airport for $107m.
The co-founder of the Carlyle Group, one of the world’s biggest buyout firms, has urged his firm to target less risky investments because lenders are taking “very risky credit decisions” when financing private equity deals.