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- Citigroup alternatives unit hires sales head
Citigroup Alternative Investments has appointed Mathias Giebken to be its first head of institutional sales in Germany and Austria.
- Oaktree Capital installs Asia chairman
Oaktree Capital Management has appointed Ralph Parks, a former Asia-Pacific chief of JP Morgan, as chairman for Asia to oversee a new private equity investment programme.
- Carlyle to complete full exit from QinetiQ
The Carlyle Group is selling its remaining 10.3 percent stake in UK defence group QinetiQ, bringing to an end a successful, if controversial, investment.
- KKR-led group set to acquire Laureate
KKR teams up with a consortium of banks, hedge funds and investors to buy the world’s largest higher education provider, in a $3.8 billion deal.
- Warburg, Merrill bolster insurance platform
The two firms have each written $350m cheques to help Aeolus Re, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, increase its capital to more than $1bn.
- Vornado enters Equity Office fray
US real estate trust Vornado has reportedly joined the consortium mulling a counter-bid for Equity Office.
- Crestview to acquire surgical facility operator for $637m
New York-based Crestview Partners, a Goldman Sachs spin-out, has agreed to acquire Symbion, a US operator of short stay surgical facilities, for $637 million.
- Citigroup hires Acanthus principal
Citigroup looks to boost its private equity placements team by hiring Laurent de Rosière from Acanthus Advisers, an advisory firm, and making up a hat trick of recent hires.
- Citi, JC Flowers to divvy up BISYS
BISYS, a provider of outsourcing solutions for the investment and insurance industries, is set to be acquired by Citi for $1.5 billion; it will then sell two BISYS divisions to JC Flowers.