Private Equity
First came the financial crisis, then the Arab Spring. The MENA region has had to deal with crises on several fronts over the last few years. So how well is the region’s private equity industry picking itself up after the turmoil?
7 min read · 19 September 2013
The Japan-focused firm has bought a maker of precision drilling equipment from Hitachi, as corporate divestitures in the country continue.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
The energy-focused firm has agreed to buy LLX, a logistics business owned by Brazil’s Eike Batista, as the country’s former richest man looks to divest parts of his embattled EBX conglomerate.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The venture capital arm of electronics giant Intel Corp has made an investment in a cloud computing service provider in Bangalore.
1 min read · 19 September 2013
The China-Europe cross-border firm has exited an Italian valve supplier after helping it develop a base in China.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The investment in the manufacturer of cutting systems for the tyre industry comes just a few days after Equistone invested in the Charles et Alice Group, a French maker of fruit desserts.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The deal, which is the latest by the firm’s Fund VI, comes three months after Hg reached a £2bn hard-cap on its Fund VII.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
This is the third investment from EQT’s mid-market fund, which is currently in market attempting to raise $1 billion for cross-border expansion investments in Europe and Asia.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The firms have acquired a US-based coffee chain with a network in Asia and aim to expand the business further across the region.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The firm has sealed its first European investment in nearly 18 months, investing €77m in German transmission testing business GIF.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
