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TPG lands separate account from New JerseyNew Jersey’s $350m commitment represents the first major investment by a US pension plan in TPG’s growing real estate business.
- Internal e-mails used in collusion case
Private equity executives’ emails are being used as evidence that some of the world’s most prominent firms allegedly colluded on mega-buyouts between 2003 and 2007, in an effort to drive down prices and limit competition.
- Investcorp seals $1bn FleetPride exit to TPG
The Bahrain-based investment group has sealed its third exit of a busy year that has also seen it make seven new private equity investments, excluding bolt-ons.
- Apax agrees to $570m shoe deal
Nike will sell footwear retailer Cole Haan to Apax Partners for $570m cash, which will include equity from Apax VIII.
- China water deal hits snag
Former Och-Ziff China head Frank Yu's firm in 2010 beat 20 bidders to buy of one of China's largest water treatment companies. Now, Standard Water is at the centre of an accounting scandal.
- Careful what you wish for
LPs love the US mid-market at the moment – but there are genuine concerns that the amount of capital flooding into this segment could depress returns
- Halifax closes Fund III on $393m
The Halifax Group, which first organised the fund in 2010, beat its fundraising target by $43m in its final close of Halifax Capital Partners III.
- Southeast Asia: A story develops
Global firms are moving in, regional firms are investing, and valuations may go higher.
- North Carolina hires CIO
The $77bn system has brought on former Florida SBA deputy executive director Kevin SigRist to take over investments.
- Insight 2013: Fundraising in Asia
LP appetite will continue its shift toward more sector-specific offerings, according to Javad Movsoumov, executive director of UBS private funds group in Singapore.