Private Equity

Middle East

SHUAA Partners looks to raise $730m for hospitality

The Dubai-based private equity firm is nearing the first close of its $200m MENA-focussed hospitality fund, and has begun marketing another $530m fund specifically for Saudi Arabia.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Dubai Capital invests alongside Citadel in glass factory

The Dubai Holding-owned buyout firm and the Egyptian firm have partnered sealing another private equity deal in the increasingly active Egyptian buyout market.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

TPG re-finances private jet firm

TPG-backed XOJET has secured nearly $2.5bn in debt and equity financing from investors and has agreed a separate joint venture with Tasameem Real Estate to establish a hub in Abu Dhabi.

3 min read · 04 January 2013

Abraaj buys Egyptian medical testing group

The UAE buyout firm has taken an Egyptian laboratory group private, as it continues in the vanguard of private equity firms in the North African country.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Report: Cerberus, Blackwater end talks

The secretive mega-buyout giant has reportedly been in ongoing negotiations with the controversial private security contractor.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

TPG invests $288 million in Strauss Coffee

The Fort Worth-based firm has inked a preliminary deal with the Israeli food and beverage maker for a 25 percent stake in its coffee business.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Merrill and TPG in co-investment talks

The US bank and the global buyout firm have held talks about the possibility of strengthening co-investment ties, after Merrill Lynch sounded out TPG last year on the possibility of receiving a capital injection from the buyout firm.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Swicorp consortium buys polysilicon plant

A consortium of three companies has invested to build a plant to produce the main raw material used in solar power plants as private equity firms continue to invest in alternative energy in the Middle East.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

3Com to pursue $66m break-up fee from Bain Capital

Following Bain’s termination of a $2.2 billion buyout, 3Com says the move was not ‘valid’.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Report: Mobius looks to invest in Iraq

The renowned emerging markets investor is reportedly seeking investment opportunities for the Templeton Emerging Markets Equity Group in the war ravaged country.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

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