Private Equity
Bahrain-based Investcorp will buy a majority stake in Berlin Packaging, just weeks after the first close on its latest fund.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The global alternative asset specialist, which has had a presence in Singapore since 2004, has opened a second office in Asia.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
StepStone, a San Diego area advisory firm founded by three ex-PCG executives including its former president, has hired PCG’s former head of research, Jay Rose. Rose is the sixth former PCG employee to move across town to StepStone.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
North Castle Partners managing director James Eason passed away last Friday.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Former NBA star Magic Johnson has endorsed a group created to oppose a House bill that would increase carried interest tax. Formation of the opposition group comes just one day before the House Ways and Means Committee is due to discuss private equity-related taxes.
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
The Blackstone Group has hired leveraged finance pro Vikrant Sawhney from Deutsche Bank.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Former Intersouth general partner Don Rainey has joined Maryland venture firm Grotech Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Peter Struck, head of the SPD faction in the German parliament, is calling for rules to limit private equity’s ability to take controlling stakes in some German companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
General Atlantic has added to its Hong Kong and Mumbai teams with the new hires of Jeff Leng and Ranjit Pandit.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
