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Carlyle launches $5.4bn Taiwan tech offerThe US buyout firm is stepping up its exposure to the semiconductor industry with a bid for the Taiwanese microchip packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering.
- Providence loses managing director to Comcast
Michael Angelakis has agreed to become the cable provider’s new chief financial officer in 2008.
- Fremont, TPG to acquire insurance company
The buyout of Nasdaq-listed Direct General is valued at approximately $628m.
- Cinven makes good return on satellite deal
Consortium sale of Eutelsat stake to a Spanish construction firm has helped European buyout firm Cinven to a return of 4.6 times its orginal investment.
- Betting on gambling
As Los Angeles-based Colony Capital launches a bid to acquire casino operator Station Casinos, the gambling play is becoming a more attractive bet to private equity real estate firms. By Aaron Lovell.
- Forum: Marrying talents within a firm is ‘key challenge’
Combining the differing skillsets of operational and dealmaking executives is the key challenge facing private equity firms in today’s marketplace, argued panellists at the PEI Operating Partners’ Forum.
- EVCA's Morelli vows to fight industry stereotypes
Vincenzo Morelli, newly-crowned chairman of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, believes the industry's current image is 'inaccurate and very unfair'.
- Permira reallocates resources for Asian TMT push
Permira has sent one of its London-based partners, Robin Bell-Jones, to Hong Kong to lead a further push into the TMT sector in Japan, South Korea, China and South-East Asia.
- Morelli: ‘Focus on top-line growth’
EVCA’s newly-elected chairman Vincenzo Morelli stressed to delegates at PEI’s Operating Partners’ Forum the need to focus on top-line growth and working in partnership with management.
- AXA PE set to buy OMERS’ portfolio
OMERS has been selling an about $780m portfolio of fund interests as it works to reduce its private equity fund commitment business and focus on direct investments.