Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of Bain Capital, said the private equity industry should engage more with policymakers and be more transparent on both good and bad outcomes.
2 min read · 04 February 2020
The firm's private equity activity in Q4 was mostly in Europe and Asia, totalling a little less than half of $4bn of total investments.
3 min read · 31 January 2020
Diversity dominated discussion at IPEM 2020 in Cannes – but will these words turn into action?
3 min read · 31 January 2020
Artificial barriers to PE investment and fundraising will do no good, said the heads of Invest Europe, France Invest and the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.
2 min read · 30 January 2020
Eurazeo chief executive Virginie Morgon says the private equity industry has 'enormous responsibility' to address inequality and the consequences of climate change.
2 min read · 29 January 2020
David Petraeus, chairman of the KKR Global Institute and former US army general, says some are calling the heightening tensions between the US and China a 'technology Cold War'.
2 min read · 28 January 2020
Sponsor-to-sponsor deals, a steady source of dealflow for GPs, usually generate favourable returns so long as the market cooperates, according to a report from Adams Street Partners.
3 min read · 28 January 2020
The firm is also on track to open offices in Paris and Sydney before the end of March, according to its latest earnings announcement on Thursday.
2 min read · 23 January 2020
PE deal volume continues to increase year-on-year as the region’s larger and faster-growing economies provide a hunting ground for international and domestic GPs.
2 min read · 22 January 2020
Which regions, strategies and funds drove the record-breaking capital raising last year? Find out in our 11-page interactive report.
1 min read · 16 January 2020