As crisis talks with Swiss Life continue over the firm’s future, the Swiss private equity firm has sold its interest in a US venture partnership via the secondaries market.
Two US-educated Arab entrepreneurs have set up a $100m fund for investment in the reconstruction of Iraq.
Pension funds and endowments have rapidly increased their allocation to alternative assets to offset losses recorded in the public equity markets, according to a new report.
The Finnish private equity firm has appointed former Carnegie investment banker Eero Niiva to its management team.
Asia Monitor Chartered for growth Assets owned by Temasek, the giant government-controlled holding company, account for over 20 per cent of Singapore’s stock market. Last month’s sale by Singapore Telecom, which is part-owned by Temasek, of its yellow pages business to financial investors was a sign that some of these assets may soon be in […]
Monitor America Push the peanut Sponsor-to-sponsor buyouts are in vogue – and to many investors, a cause for concern. Are private equity firms buying from other private equity firms doing the right thing? David Snow looks at the arguments. These must be tough times in the private equity market because GPs are spending a lot […]
Europe Monitor Viennese Whirl At EVCA’s 20th anniversary annual meeting in June, a panel of leading private equity practitioners took a view on what lies ahead for Europe’s large-cap buyout industry. If you ever need evidence as to how an industry is faring, then a quick check of the industry association barometer usually helps. Whilst […]
Electra Partners has paid E112m for three French units of Rexel, supported by a E16m vendor loan from parent-company Pinault-Printemps-Redoute.
The London-based buyout firm, which has so far raised E2.4bn for CCP VII, will continue to market the fund throughout the summer.
Schroders has announced the launch of a second fund of funds, the follow-up to the firm’s debut vehicle which closed last June on E242m.