Private Equity
Cross-border M&A trends will continue to play to Bain Capital's strengths in 2008, according to one of its managing directors.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The US investment bank is continuing to strengthen its private equity team, now called Morgan Stanley Private Equity, as it raises a $6 billion debut fund just three years after spinning out its in-house PE group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity legend Ted Forstmann is returning to active investment, after winding down his own firm in 2004. He is raising a $250 million media and entertainment fund with Chris Albrecht, formerly the head of HBO.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Riverstone has hired former BP executive Ralph Alexander, just weeks after appointing BP's former CEO, Lord Browne, to lead its European activities.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Global buyout firm Advent International has completed its reorganisation of its central and eastern European operations with the opening of an office in Ukraine.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tech start-up entrepreneur Eric Litman has crossed over to venture capital, taking the reins of WashingtonVC from founder Mike Mann.
3 min read · 04 January 2013
In PEO's second installment in its Countdown to 2008, Mario Giannini, chief executive of global investment advisory firm Hamilton Lane, predicts a relatively benign year for the industry despite a "wall of worry".
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Temasek, the Singapore sovereign fund, has lost three senior investment executives in a week. Jimmy Phoon, the chief investment officer of the investment firm in Singapore, is leaving. Hong Kong’s Frank Tang, Temasek China dealmaker, has also resigned with his colleague Terry Hu.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Moelis & Co. has held a $1.8 billion first close on its new fund, just five months after founder Ken Moelis left his position as head of investment banking for UBS.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Dubai investment group Istithmar has opened an office in Shanghai; it is the firm’s first office outside of the United Arab Emirates.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
