Private Equity
Emerging Capital Partners, in partnership with Truffle Capital, has acquired a third African mining company with its $53 million purchase of Morocco’s Compagnie Miniere de Touissit.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Veritas Capital has sold defence contractor Athena Innovative Solutions to CACI International for an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Global Capital Management, a subsidiary of Kuwaiti investment bank Global Investment House, has held a first close on its MENA fund with more than $500 million in commitments.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Dubai International Capital has completed its first direct private equity investment in the region through the acquisition of luxury company Rivoli Group.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The alternatives-focussed Yale University endowment returned 28 percent this year, up 5.1 percent percent from 2005. The endowment is now valued at $22.5 billion, up 25 percent from 2005.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
PCG spin-out StepStone will manage the State of Wisconsin Investment Board’s specialised private equity fund investments.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Actis has partially sold energy company Globeleq while retaining the company’s sub-Saharan assets and its global pipeline of projects. Actis has managed Globeleq for emerging markets firm CDC.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Carlyle has hired international trade and policy expert David Marchick to provide in-house government affairs, regulatory and strategic advice to its fund managers.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The alternatives-focussed Yale University endowment returned 28 percent this year, up 5.1 percent percent from 2005. The endowment is now valued at $22.5 billion, up 25 percent from 2005.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Nordic buyout firm’s Skr2 billion recapitalisation of Dacke, two years after the buyout firm acquired the company, is an exception in liquidity-starved credit markets.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
