Private Equity
Jonathan Mandel, who joined the bank's Hong Kong office this March, has been caught up in a round of redundancies.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Former Kleiner Perkins China partner Ian Goh has followed David Su to Matrix's China affiliate. Su and Goh worked together both at Kleiner Perkins China and TDF Capital. Matrix is investing its first China fund, which closed on $275m in January 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Jeff Bennett has been promoted from within the leveraged and acquisistion finance team to replace David Simons.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Dubai International Capital and Dubai Group have been placed into the same holding company, while the debt-laden emirate has also combined back office functions for its three real estate entities.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Kevin Wang, a China-focused GP at the Asian Natixis affiliate, will leave to launch his own firm. NPEA, meanwhile, aims to increase its Chinese private equity activities and will open a Beijing office this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The publicly traded alternatives manager reportedly cut around 100 jobs towards the end of 2008, as its share price was hitting an all-time low.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York firm has asked Trent Vichie of Macquarie Securities to lead Blackstone’s newly unveiled developed-infrastructure business. Vichie, an Australian national, was instrumental in the Chicago Skyway transaction, a landmark US toll road privatization.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK government-backed fund of funds has taken on ex-Unilever executive Shonaid Jemmett-Page in the new role.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Limited partners will have louder voices on issues including deal fees and fund sizes, Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein said at a conference today. He also gave 15 reasons why the financial crisis has been good for private equity.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Ronan Agnew has left the bank less than a year after he relocated to Hong Kong from London.
1 min read · 05 January 2013