Private Equity
The energy-focused firm has agreed to buy LLX, a logistics business owned by Brazil’s Eike Batista, as the country’s former richest man looks to divest parts of his embattled EBX conglomerate.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The New Mexico State Investment Council’s $1.52bn private equity portfolio has returned 3.33% since 2001.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The Mexican private equity market is less crowded and opportunities are more attractive for firms with local expertise, says Alfredo Castellanos, managing director at Evercore Mexico Capital Partners, which closed its third fund last month.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
After acquiring the company for about $2bn in 2007, Apax Partners will sell Hub International to its peer Hellman & Friedman.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The French fund manager is the latest private equity group to snap up a UK airport.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Z Capital’s second special situations fund includes a 2.5% cash commitment from the firm that specialises in the private equity-distressed sector.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
Since July, the firm has invested a combined $460m in renewable energy businesses in Chile and Brazil.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
At the same time that fundraising in the region has risen to $3.8bn, mid market consumer investments have shot up 44%.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
The Rohatyn Group will substantially expand its presence in emerging markets by acquiring Citi Venture Capital International, one of the bank’s few remaining in-house private equity divisions.
2 min read · 19 September 2013
European GPs are on course to collect more than twice as much capital as last year, according to PEI data. Acanthus' managing partner Armando D’Amico tells PEI what’s topping LPs’ priority lists.
3 min read · 19 September 2013
