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.
The firm received unanimous approval from its LPs to replace Mark Wiseman with Robert Kapito as chairman of the executive investment committee, allowing its Long Term Private Capital Fund to continue investing.
3 min read · 15 January 2020
From spreading the wealth to dealing with Brexit, here are four themes expected to shape the dialogue between the private equity industry and European governments this year.
4 min read · 14 January 2020
Capital raising by PE firms across all strategies rose $74.5bn from the previous year as Asia-Pacific gave Europe a run for its money.
2 min read · 13 January 2020
Ahmed Badreldin, the firm's former head of Middle East and North Africa, says the North Africa Fund II has roughly doubled LPs' capital on exited investments so far.
3 min read · 13 January 2020
Rising tensions between Washington and Tehran in the past week and Iran’s restrictive investment environment make private equity investments a challenging proposition.
3 min read · 09 January 2020
The 10 largest capital raises for the month gathered nearly $31bn among them.
2 min read · 08 January 2020
Despite political headwinds and macroeconomic concerns across the continent, European giants are returning to market with record targets.
3 min read · 06 January 2020
The $475bn combined AUM of the firms brings scale across alternative asset classes neither have achieved on their own.
2 min read · 19 December 2019
There’s no shortage of growth equity in the world right now.
2 min read · 17 December 2019
A year since our look into Inventis, its founder and its claims to be ‘China’s largest private equity firm’, new sources come forward with their experiences.
5 min read · 16 December 2019
