Darby Overseas Investments

The firm’s mezzanine fund has divested its holding in Leadcorp through a domestic IPO.

The firm has hired Roberto Velarde, former CIO of Grupo Inder in Chile, to manage its Latin America investment practice and develop additional private equity vehicles focused on the region.

Franklin Templeton Darby Private Equity is the latest firm to establish a partnership with Shanghai to establish an RMB-denominated fund.

The Seoul-based joint venture fund between Darby Overseas Investments and Hana Bank has invested 35bn Korean won to help expand the generating capacity of Gangwon Wind Power.

Tano Capital, a US private equity firm which focuses on China and India, is forming a joint venture with Darby Overseas Investments and Tianjin Port Tariff-Free Zone Investments, a local government-linked.

Tano Capital, a US private equity firm which focuses on China and India, is forming a joint venture with Darby Overseas Investments and Tianjin Port Tariff-Free Zone Investments, a local government-linked.

Tano Capital, a US private equity firm which focuses on China and India, is forming a joint venture with Darby Overseas Investments and Tianjin Port Tariff-Free Zone Investments, a local government-linked.

Darby Overseas Investments is supporting a Polish firm’s plans to exploit growing demand for its products from the bio-diesel industry.

The Hong Kong-based firm has hired former H&Q Asia Pacific MD Peter Ko as managing director and ex-CEO of JPMorgan Asia David Hudson as senior advisor.

The deal comes as ARX prepares to come to market with a successor fund.

Jeong Hoon Lee, who has long private equity experience, has joined the firm as the third senior appointment to its alternatives team since March last year.

The Franklin Templeton-subsidiary made its investment in Grupo Financiero Improsathrough its 2001 ProBanco I Fund, a $27m vehicle.

After losing the head of its Rio office to Hamilton Lane in September, Capital Dynamics has hired former Stratus Group managing director Marcelo Moraes to lead a new office in São Paulo.

On the heels of hiring its investment staff, the $10bn Russian government-backed vehicle has named several private equity heavyweights to its board in preparation for its first investment.

KKR, New Silk Route and Standard Chartered Private Equity are close to a deal that would see them back one of India's largest coffee house chains.

Ho Shik Kim will advise the Korea Emerging Infrastructure Fund, which the partnership jointly manages.