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  • Carlyle takes top spot with €5.35bn European fund
    PEI Staff- 4 January 2013

    David Rubenstein’s fundraising machine has marched to the top of the fundraising pile with Carlyle’s latest European fund taking its global firepower to almost $25 billion.

  • TPG mulls £11bn Virgin Media bid(4)
    James Taylor- 4 January 2013

    US buyout firm TPG is considering a bid for cable broadband company Virgin Media. It is also lining up its first Russian deal.

  • AlpInvest appoints two new partners
    Jo Nash- 4 January 2013

    The biggest private equity investor in Europe has bolstered its team with the appointment of two partners to its New York and Amsterdam offices.

  • TPG mulls £11bn Virgin Media bid(3)
    James Taylor- 4 January 2013

    US buyout firm TPG is considering a bid for cable broadband company Virgin Media. It is also lining up its first Russian deal.

  • Branson may join Virgin Media take-private bid
    PEI Staff- 4 January 2013

    The hotly contested auction for cable company Virgin Media may be facilitated by shareholder Sir Richard Branson, while the number of reportedly interested bidders continues to increase.

  • Doughty Hanson to raise €1bn listed fund
    Robert Venes- 4 January 2013

    Doughty Hanson is reportedly to follow in the public market footsteps of KKR and Apollo Management and raise a buyout fund on Amsterdam Euronext.

  • Carlyle leads $656m investment in Taiwan’s Ta Chong bank(2)
    Sharon Lim- 4 January 2013

    A consortium led by The Carlyle Group is buying a 36.6 percent stake in Ta Chong Bank, overturning the bank’s distaste for a private equity suitor.

  • Carlyle in record €1.5bn Spanish deal(3)
    Jennifer Harris- 4 January 2013

    The Carlyle Group’s planned acquisition of Barcelona-based inspection services company Applus will be one of the largest private equity investment in Spain to date.

  • Carlyle pulls out of Guangdong Bank bid
    Sharon Lim- 4 January 2013

    The Carlyle Group has pulled out of a Citigroup consortium vying for a stake in Guangdong Development Bank.

  • Carlyle sells stake to Abu Dhabi government fund
    PEI Staff- 4 January 2013

    The US alternative assets group has sold a further 7.5 percent stake in itself to a strategic investor, valuing David Rubenstein's firm at $20 billion. It sold 5.5 percent to CalPERS in 2000.