Private Equity
The firm is structuring the financing for the acquisition of two oil and gas drilling equipment companies in the US for $82m, and has agreed to acquire another in China.
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
Respondents to a recent survey also said sovereign funds’ long-term strategy makes them more appealing than other LPs.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Bahrain-based investment firm is betting on China’s alternative energy sector through a joint venture with India’s Tanti Group. The deal is Arcapita’s first in China.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The hardware, software and technology services giant and Russia-focussed investment firm UFG Asset Management have funded the launch of Almaz Capital.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Bowmark Capital has made four times its money from a consolidation play in the UK educational travel market. DLJ plans to take advantage of trends driving the market to outsourced travel providers.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
In what is the latest in a series of reforms in China's private equity sector, regulatory authorities seem set to allow securities houses to start private equity operations.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Konzen Group, a Singaporean water firm, and AmInvestment Bank, a Malaysian bank, have launched a private equity fund to invest in water treatment and waste water management throughout China and Southeast Asia.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Hangzhou, a picturesque historical city near Shanghai, is reportedly looking to raise RMB5 billion and RMB560 million for an industrial fund and a venture capital fund respectively.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Italian private equity firm Magenti will sell the concrete equipment firm to a consortium comprised of Shenzhen-listed construction equipment company Zoomlion, Goldman Sachs, Hony Capital and Mandarin Capital Partners.
1 min read · 04 January 2013