The US investment bank is making its first private equity-focussed move into Asia with a $300m India fund.
The Silicon Valley venture firm has more than doubled its capital under management with closure of its fourth fund.
As the year draws to a close PEO's team has pulled out its crystal ball to take a view on 10 of the themes that will occupy the industry in 2008.
The debt-focussed private investment firm has raised $194 million from listing an energy fund on Goldman Sachs' private exchange. It is the fourth private equity vehicle to do so since the exchange began trading in May.
The Founders Fund, a venture firm launched three years ago by the founders of Paypal, has raised $220 million for its first institutional fund.
Goldman Sachs Private Equity has raised $600 million for its first pan-Asian fund of funds.
Prophet Equity, founded by former Bain & Company executives Ross Gatlin and George Stelling, will take its first fund to market in early 2008 with a $250 million hard cap.
Five years after KKR bought a mini conglomerate from German industrial giant Siemens, it has sold the last piece of it, a manufacturer of catalysts and ceramics, to its UK rival.
The Dubai fund manager hopes its regional expertise will give it the edge as it expands its geographic reach to include Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
The buyout group continues to enhance its debt market activities with closure of its first ever ‘credit liquidity’ fund.