Private Equity
The C$55bn pension’s direct investing arm has hired director Isabelle Pagnotta from Arcapita. OMERS PE has completed three investments in Europe since opening its London office in 2009.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Carlyle’s $500m MENA-focused growth capital and buyout vehicle will acquire a 30% stake in family owned Penti.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Two sovereign wealth funds, GIC and KIA, and a third unnamed fund have acquired a 10% stake in CVC Capital Partners in a deal which will see them given preferential access to deals as well as a share of management fees and carried interest.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
Strong fundamentals alone are not enough to make global LPs bet big on Turkey’s burgeoning economy.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The private equity firm's latest frontier market fund has raised $25m for investment in Myanmar.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Emerging market firm Actis has strengthened its African operational team by appointing James Smith as a director in its value creation group.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Paris-based private equity firm has agreed to make its first direct investment in Africa by way of a $125m commitment to telecom tower infrastructure business IHS.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The private equity subsidiary of CITIC Securities has already raised half of its RMB 10bn target.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Mehmet Sami, the managing director and executive board member of Ata Invest, has left Ata to pursue other opportunities in the private equity advisory sector.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
When The Blackstone Group’s Chad Pike – a US national who was previously co-head of the firm’s real estate arm and is now vice-chairman of Blackstone Europe – bought a family home in Edington, a tiny Wilshire village not far from Stonehenge, he probably thought he was acquiring a little slice of English country paradise (albeit largely for weekend use only).
1 min read · 17 January 2013
