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04 Feb 2012 20:42 GMT Nigel Doughty, the co-chairman and co-founder of UK-based private equity firm Doughty Hanson, has passed away unexpectedly at the age of 54.
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07 Feb 2012 02:00 GMT The firm, which registered for an IPO in September, had planned to bar its future unitholders from the ability to file class-action lawsuits, but has backed off on that provision.
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06 Feb 2012 12:34 GMT UK state-backed CDC Group has partnered a German development finance institution in launching a mezzanine fund to address African companies' funding gap.
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06 Feb 2012 13:48 GMT Walid Musallam (pictured), the former head of Carlyle's Middle East and North Africa operations, will be replaced by two of the firm's existing chiefs in the region.
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06 Feb 2012 02:00 GMT As The Carlyle Group moves toward its IPO, Joseph Rice says the public model for private equity firms doesn’t fit the bill for Clayton Dubilier & Rice.
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06 Feb 2012 00:01 GMT Private equity investor Pantheon has appointed Jaime Londoño from Wilshire Associates to lead a push into Latin America, in a further sign of the region's growing importance.
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06 Feb 2012 04:00 GMT The global private equity firm's two RMB funds have made a first close with 90 percent of capital commitments from private investors, almost 18 months after launching.
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06 Feb 2012 10:23 GMT A fund managed by Enterprise Investors, the Warsaw-based private equity and venture capital firm, is to invest €40m in the Polish wind farm sector over the next few years.
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06 Feb 2012 03:00 GMT General Atlantic sold its stake in Kaspersky Lab after holding the investment for slightly more than a year. Kaspersky used its ‘significant’ profits to buy back General Atlantic’s stake in the company.
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03 Feb 2012 13:07 GMT Mid Europa Partners has agreed the sale of Orange Austria in a deal valuing the business at €1.3bn, as the CEE-specialist eyes a return to market in the second or third quarter.
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03 Feb 2012 03:00 GMT The debt affiliate of The Blackstone Group has stopped marketing its second mezzanine fund, which is set to hit its $4bn hard-cap in the next few months. GSO also is launching its second ‘rescue fund’ that will come in handy in Europe.
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03 Feb 2012 15:09 GMT Placement agent MVision has become a patron of UK charity The Prince’s Trust, backing the group at a time when many charities are struggling to raise capital and win support.
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03 Feb 2012 15:51 GMT The energy-focused firm, which is in market with its sixth fund targeting $1.4bn, has agreed to invest $100m in oil and gas producer Capstone Natural Resources.
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03 Feb 2012 02:00 GMT The Scottish industrial specialist said its latest fundraising - which topped the original target by £70m in just nine months - was evidence of private equity's 'new world'.
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02 Feb 2012 15:29 GMT At around $5bn, Facebook's public float would be the biggest-ever tech IPO. Its backers, including Accel Partners and Elevation Partners, could be looking at massive windfalls.
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