Private Equity
The Dubai Government-backed investment firm’s emerging markets arm has purchased a 45 percent stake in KEF, the Middle East’s first fully automated steel castings foundry.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The newly-formed private equity firm founded by three ZelnickMedia partners has emerged as the previously unidentified buyer of Greenfield Online’s internet survey business. Microsoft recently bought Greenfield for $486m after it bettered by $2 per share an earlier offer made by Quadrangle Group.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sovereign wealth funds have entered British football with The Abu Dhabi United Group, headed by ‘the Donald Trump of Abu Dhabi’, agreeing to buy Manchester City. Dubai International Capital previously tried to purchase a stake in the Tom Hicks-owned Liverpool team.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Fisker Automotive has raised $65m from the Qatar Investment Authority, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Palo Alto Investors. The capital will support the development of the company’s four-door, plug-in hybrid sports car.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Israel's Infinity Equity has teamed again with China Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Partners, this time to back a spin-out of Hong Kong-listed technology company Digital China Holdings.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
In a bid to consolidate the industry at the start of a ‘nuclear fuel cycle’, the US energy industry specialist has recruited two veterans of nuclear power to form Accord Nuclear Resources, a platform from which to build an integrated nuclear fuel supplier.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The emerging markets specialist has executed another African PIPE deal, this time taking part of Tunisia’s largest listed company.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The emerging markets private equity firm has acquired Teknicast in what is its second management buyout in Malaysia's aluminium sector and third overall in the country.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Aureos Capital has made its first investment in Tonga, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. Tonga offers investment opportunities that are driven by increasing tourist arrivals in the Kingdom and the resulting need for infrastructure development.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The exit, which was made in light of Romanian regulatory changes on the horizon, came as a ‘disappointment’ to the renewable energy-focused private equity firm, which had looked forward to building the largest wind farm development in Europe.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
