India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) has approved the acquisition of a 33 percent stake in a Mumbai-based private securities firm for an undisclosed amount.
Following news of KKR’s planned fund IPO in Amsterdam, SJ Berwin’s Simon Witney takes a look at the regulatory environment for listed private equity funds.
AnaCap Financial Partners, a new pan-European private equity firm focusing on the financial services sector, has raised an oversubscribed €300m vehicle.
SVG Advisers, the fund management business of London-listed private equity fund of funds SVG Capital, has closed a new collateralised fund obligation (CFO) vehicle on €500m.
Syntaxis Capital has been launched by a trio of former Mezzanine Management executives with the backing of UK-based mezzanine investor Indigo Capital.
Following yesterday’s agreement to put $500m towards the $2.5bn purchase of Morgan Stanley’s aircraft leasing group, Guy Hands must seek a speedy fundraising to refill coffers.
The UK mid-market specialist has acquired holiday home and caravan group Cinque Ports Leisure in a £130m deal.
The firm formerly known as EMP Europe has closed the largest private equity fund aimed at Central and Eastern Europe to date.
Australia’s CHAMP Private Equity and its US partner Castle Harlan have made 6.5 times cash through the turnaround of pay TV business Austar United Communications.
Legal & General Ventures has just returned from the fundraising trail for the fifth time in five years: this time with £200m in donations. Andy Thomson reports.
Nordic Capital has agreed to sell the Nordic distributor of installation-related products to Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in a secondary buyout.
According to figures presented at the AVCA’s annual conference in Mombasa earlier this week, VCs active in Africa invested $1.3bn last year, up 60% on 2003.
The Institutional Limited Partner Association has thrown its weight behind private equity reporting guidelines established by PEIGG.
Private equity fundraising is set for a record-breaking year in 2005, but the mega-LBO funds taking the industry into uncharted waters are members of a small but privileged elite. By Andy Thomson
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the New York-based buyout giant, is sizing up opportunities in the Australian private equity market, according to sources there.