Private Equity
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings latest appointment is a member of the wealthy and influential Swedish industrial Wallenberg family, dubbed the 'Royal Family of Swedish business.'
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The London-based buyout firm is opening an operation in France recruiting former NewBridge co-founder Didier Riebel and ex-SPEF LBO managing director Laurent Allégot. The firm is targeting €100m with its first dedicated French vehicle.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The European venture firm has hired Eric Ly to enhance its Silicon Valley network as the love affair between the venture community and social networking websites continues.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The firm's Asian leveraged finance team has established a presence in Australia with the hire of David Balint in Sydney, who brings with him 12 years of investment banking experience.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
CVC Capital Partners has hired Zhu Wei from Goldman to head its new office as it joins a growing number of private equity firms venturing into China's capital.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The former head of Carlyle’s North American industrial buyouts group, Jay Powell, will apply his experience to the North American cleantech sector; GEF’s Clean Technology Fund II is targeting $350m.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Connecticut-based placement agent has hired former Cengage Learning chief operating officer Jerry Elliott to take over some of the responsibilities of founder and CEO Charles Eaton. The firm has also appointed four executives to its private equity and real estate operations.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Daniel Dantas, who once managed Brazil's largest private equity fund, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of heading a criminal organisation; the executive has been embroiled in a long string of legal conflicts stemming from his alleged mismanagement of the Citigroup-affiliated private equity fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Scott Meyer will join the New York-based private equity firm as an entrepreneur-in-residence focussed on sourcing investment opportunities in the internet sector.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Hazem Shawki, Kashif Siddiqui and Walid Zein have worked together at Goldman for more than six years and are now going to help the Egyptian bank invest its third MENA fund.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
