Private Equity
Tone Grant plans to appeal his conviction for his role in the $2.4bn defrauding of TH Lee and other investors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The European investment bank’s corporate finance advisory business, which has advised on recent private equity deals including Hg's £126m exit of Boosey & Hawkes, has pruned its London team by 11 bankers as the slowdown in M&A activity takes its toll.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Paul Rivlin and Neil Lawson-May, the duo who staged a management buyout of Eurohypo Asset Management in April, have hired former Eurohypo real estate investment bankers Keith Davidson and James Tarry as they plan a series of debt funds.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UAE-based buyout group has appointed industrialist Farrukh Abbas to head the firm’s developing Pakistan operations. Abbas will be charged with managing Abraaj’s three portfolio investments in the fast-growing economy as well as sourcing new opportunities.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Permira has hired a former Goldman banker in its recently established Hong Kong office to lead its efforts in Greater China. The firm's second Asian office now has four investment professionals.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Candover, Englefield and Apollo have joined the increasing number of private equity firms flocking to set up shop in Mumbai. All three firms have appointed heads of their respective teams; Candover has tapped Goldman Sachs' former co-head of principal investments, Harsha Raghavan.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Jochen Koenig is filling the slot vacated by John Hourican, who is now part of the team managing RBS' latest acquisition, the Dutch bank ABN Amro.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The longtime head of DLJ Merchant Banking told The New York Times yesterday that he left the firm in part as the result of an online smear campaign’s impact on both the firm and his family. The attack was launched by the ex-husband of Rattner’s former mistress.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The information technology- and life sciences- focused venture capital firm has closed its 10th fund, with the goal of investing in approximately 60 early-stage US companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The buyout firm, set to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, has added John Bryson, former Edison International chairman and chief executive, as senior advisor for its infrastructure initiative. KKR announced its infrastructure initiative in May and is reportedly raising a $5bn infrastructure fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
