Private Equity
Jacana Partners, a private equity group co-founded by ECI non-executive chairman Stephen Dawson, will join a growing number of firms looking to raise capital for Africa next year.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The chief executive of Argos Soditic France, Louis Godron, has been appointed as chairman of the French private equity trade body, AFIC, following its annual general meeting last week.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
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.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
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.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Andrew Bellis, a senior CLO manager at Credit Suisse, has joined 3i Debt Management as a partner in a further sign of the group’s ambitious growth plans.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Priorities USA Action, a political action committee backing President Obama, has released a new ad attacking Mitt Romney’s private equity background in an effort to swing ‘battleground’ states.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
The technology and venture guru has contributed a ‘significant’ amount to Mithril Capital Management’s $402m first close and will chair the firm’s investment committee.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
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.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Steven St. Peter, who worked at Carlyle and Apax, has stepped down as a managing director at life sciences firm MPM Capital to focus on his next move in the venture industry.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Yahya Jalil, a managing director and head of private equity at Middle Eastern investment management and advisory group The National Investor, has left the firm to pursue other opportunities.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
