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Actis in $169m LatAm renewables dealSince July, the firm has invested a combined $460m in renewable energy businesses in Chile and Brazil.
- DPI holds $250m first close
The African-focused firm, which started fundraising last year, is understood to have held a $250m first close in July and is expected to wrap up fundraising in May next year.
- PEI Awards: Carlyle and Partners Group win big
The results are in: Carlyle and Partners Group claimed top prizes in multiple categories, with groups including Apollo, Landmark, Actis, Navis and EQT also proving themselves as standout players.
- Cordiant targets $1bn for emerging markets debt
The emerging markets-focused firm is targeting twice the amount of its previous fund and will invest in sectors including infrastructure, manufacturing and financial services.
- Actis buys back UK government's 40% stake
The transaction values the emerging markets private equity investor's franchise at £20m and gives the government a share in future carried interest.
- Friday Letter: Keep Talking
Picture the scene. A crowded roundtable discussion at a busy private equity conference in central London yesterday. A man in the audience asks the two panelists, both distinguished buyout partners, if they are concerned by the potential for complaint from public market investors, should a recent public-to-private trigger a spate of similar deals.
- Friday Letter A chorus of concern – and an optimistic look ahead
Economic decoupling now looks a romantic notion of the past – made plain this week by GPs and LPs at the PEI Emerging Markets Forum in London. But while not immune from the problems plaguing global markets, private equity in emerging markets is also hoping to benefit from the fallout.
- Friday Letter Lights, camera, action
Emerging markets private equity is the star attraction in the first PEO Video offering launched this week.
- Friday Letter Job cuts and ramp-ups
The news flow this week confirmed that private equity is by no means an island unaffected by the global financial crisis. Parts of it are under water, but elsewhere industry professionals are getting excited by the opportunities this crisis will produce.
- Friday Letter: Global letters
Last night we held our second annual Private Equity International Awards Global Winners' Celebration - and revealed the Private Equity Leader for this year.