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OMERS funds expert joins advisor CaledonMartin Day, who ran fund commitments and co-investments for OMERS PE, will work with the team at Toronto-based Caledon Capital to build customised accounts for small and mid-sized LPs.
- ADIA appoints CFO
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has chosen Marc Keirstead as chief financial officer of its private equity department.
- ADIA strengthens co-investment function
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has appointed Colm Lanigan, who until recently had run Tara Capital, to lead its co-investment unit.
- Freshfields launches multi-strategy group
The law firm has launched a ‘fully integrated offering’ for private equity, infrastructure, sovereign wealth and so-called ‘alternative capital providers’, acknowledging that the strategies of many global investors have converged.
- CPPIB consortium in $3.2bn Norwegian gas deal
Together with Allianz Capital Partners and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the Canadian pension plan has agreed to acquire a 24.1% stake in Gassled, a gas transportation business.
- CDB eyes TPG stake
The $770bn China Development Bank is following in the footsteps of GIC and KIA with the purchase of a stake in TPG's management company.
- GIC buys into second Western GP
GIC has reportedly teamed up with Kuwait Investment Authority to buy a 4.5% stake in David Bonderman-led TPG Capital. The sovereign fund bought a stake in Apax in 2009.
- EUROPE NEWS: Norway’s wise men
The $300 billion sovereign wealth fund has set up an advisory board to play ‘devil’s advocate’ on investments In these days of risk control, it is unsurprising that a large European sovereign wealth fund has just set up an advisory board to vet property investments. PERE Magazine September 2010
- CPPIB buys Ferrovial’s 10% in Canadian road for €640m
The Canadian pension has paid €640m to acquire a 10% stake in Toronto’s 407 ETR toll road from Ferrovial. CPPIB is now the toll road’s second-largest shareholder (40%) with Ferrovial retaining its place at the top of the shareholding tree (43.23%).
- ADIA ends search for private equity chief
Former Zurich private equity head Jim Kester has joined the $600bn Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund as CIO of the fund’s private equity unit.