Private Equity
The global mid-market firm is the latest attracted to Turkish companies, having purchased pet food maker Tropikal.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
KKR is now bidding alone for the Australian hospital operator against a trio comprising Blackstone, TPG and Carlyle.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
IDFC, Argonaut and Ascent Capital are among the latest firms to back the Indian power generation company, which two months ago received $200m from Temasek.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Tokyo-based KK daVinci is reportedly in talks to sell three prime offices in the city. A sale would come hot-on-the-heels of the firm’s $142 million divestment of the Lietocourt Arx residential tower to Kuwait’s St Martins Group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Venture capital firms invested just $234m in Israel in the first three months of 2010.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Qatari Diar – fully owned by the emirate of Qatar – has become the second-largest shareholder in French construction company Vinci with a stake of between 5% and 8%. In exchange, Vinci acquires 100% of service provider Cegelec, which is set to add some €3bn in revenues to the French group.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The real estate arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has bought 5% of French utility company Veolia Environnement. The acquisition is the fund’s second foray into the French infrastructure market after it acquired 5.78% of VINCI.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, the hospitality company taken private by Colony Capital and Kingdom Holding Company, is reportedly preparing to sell the legendary Raffles Hotel in Singapore to Qatari Diar. The Qatar sovereign wealth fund has yet to decide on the amount of money required to refurbish the colonial icon.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The real estate arm of the Qatar sovereign fund has teamed up with Voyager Partners to become the largest shareholder in the hotel group taken private by Kingdom Holding Company and Colony Capital for $5.5bn in 2006.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The sovereign wealth fund is reportedly planning to increase its stake in Songbird Estates to almost 30%.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
