Private Equity
Lynn Fordham, who took over as chief executive officer of SVG Capital in April last year, is no stranger to complex restructuring jobs. Toby Mitchenall met with her, SVG’s IR head Alice Kain and global head of investments Sam Robinson to discuss the company’s frantic recent past and uncertain future.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
Industry insiders took time out from PEI's recent Turkey Forum in Istanbul to explain why - despite some hurdles - Turkish private equity merits serious LP attention.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
5 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity arm of Citigroup has made an all-equity minority investment in the livestock pharmaceuticals producer.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Founded by a trio of German grandees, BLM Partners has sprung up out of the crisis and has the private equity industry in its sights.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
The tech-focused middle market affiliate of Silver Lake Partners has purchased a minority interest in Brazilian computing company Locaweb.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The government said the fund will ‘act as a vehicle for attracting and channeling capital flows to critical infrastructure’. The fund is an initiative championed by newly installed President Goodluck Jonathan and will be seeded with revenues from the country’s oil and gas sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Nigeria's growing pension plans - whose AUM are expected to hit $30bn by 2010 - for the first time may be allowed a private equity allocation.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Dutch firm Juneau is the latest firm to focus its investment strategy on female entrepreneurs
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Smaller vehicles face an uphill struggle in whipping up investor interest, according to Ian Barrass, portfolio manager of HPEQ, a listed European private equity trust in wind down-mode.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
