Private Equity
Michael Queen, managing partner of 3i’s infrastructure business, sees India as the top destination worldwide for infrastructure dollars during the next three years. Longer term, cash-strapped US will be the best market for infrastructure investment.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Constance Jay will join the European investment firm’s Paris office to assume the role of investor relations head. The firm is currently raising a €150m mezzanine fund which it hopes to close by the end of 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm founded by former JAFCO executive Vincent Chan has hired Louis Choy, former CEO of Hong Kong life sciences company Biocenturey, and Felix Wong, former CFO of Natixis Private Equity Asia. The firm has raised $103m to date for its debut fund focused on SMEs in China.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
$1tr in leveraged loans has been affected by the collapse in investment banking, which has left the sector with far fewer sources of lending than before.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Nordic buyout firm is joining the likes of IK Partners, Candover and Advent as it seeks to take a slice of the Central and Eastern European market. Piotr Czapski, a technology specialist, will lead the push.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
As British bank Barclays snaps up Lehman’s core investment banking businesses, the fate of the bankrupt bank’s investment management division including its private equity and real estate portfolio has yet to be sealed.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The London-listed affiliate of American Capital has lost Julian Masters to the mid-market UK firm Bowmark Capital. As well as hiring Masters as partner, Bowmark has lured Nomura’s Tom Shelford as investment director.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Former KPMG senior executive Hiroaki Yoshihari will focus on the technology, media and telecoms sectors in Japan. Permira has made one investment in Japan to date, though it opened its first local office there in September 2005.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The auction for Lehman's Neuberger Berman and units including private equity fund of funds and secondaries, as well as infrastructure, will proceed despite objections from Carlyle over a $2.15bn bid from Bain and Hellman & Friedman.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Razak Dawood, previously Pakistan’s trade and industry minister, will advise the MENASA-focused firm as it uses a portion of its $500m fund to invest in South Asia.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
