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Carlyle raises $1.1bn for bank fundThe firm’s financial services group, led by Olivier Sarkozy, half brother of the French president, has made three investments.
- Wellcome, Blackstone team up for UK bank bid
The two giants of the private equity world are joining forces to buy a number of RBS branches.
- Temasek to invest $200m in GMR Energy
The smaller of the two Singaporean sovereign wealth funds is backing the Indian company’s energy expansion plans.
- Carlyle takes on DIC's Kump
The former head of European private equity at the Dubai firm, Eric Kump, will make his debut in Carlyle's London office today.
- Global Infrastructure Partners hires IR head
Susan Healy, a veteran of Babcock & Brown and The Carlyle Group, assumed the position effective this month. In related news, First Reserve hired Chris Pieterson of CP Eaton as vice president in investor relations and co-investment in the firm’s London office.
- Global firms add to advisory rosters
CD&R has hired the former Proctor & Gamble boss AG Lafley. Advent and Carlyle have also recently added veterans to their advisory networks.
- ILPA private equity meeting proves ‘productive’
The ILPA roundtable between GPs and LPs Tuesday had more ‘agreement than disagreement’, according to Joseph Dear, CalPERS' CIO.
- Carlyle seals first Gulf investment
The global private equity firm has taken a 30% stake in Saudi lighting business General Lighting Company.
- Shanghai chips away at PE currency barrier
A pilot scheme would allow the conversion of up to 50% of an RMB fund from foreign currency, removing a huge hurdle facing foreign investors seeking access to China's private equity market.
- Carlyle exits aircraft parts company for $1.44bn
Vought Aircraft, into which the firm first invested in 1992, will be acquired by the Triumph Group, which is paying $525m in cash.