Private Equity

Middle East

Pitango Venture Capital raises $175m

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1 min read · 15 December 2016

OPIC: impact demand vastly exceeds our ability to serve it

<span class="ITALIC">Elizabeth Littlefield, the CEO of the US government’s development finance institution, discusses OPIC’s impact investing tracking system and its interest in venture capital and renewable energy.</span>

4 min read · 14 December 2016

PEI Awards: Keep the votes coming!

Our highly popular annual awards have got off to a flying start, with nearly 2,000 respondents making their views known at the time of writing.

1 min read · 13 December 2016

Private equity arrives in Afghanistan

Two government-backed investors have committed capital to InFrontier, Afghanistan's first private equity fund.

1 min read · 13 December 2016

Investors maintain strong interest in mid-market

Probitas Partners’ latest institutional investors survey found that limited partners are still flocking to mid-market funds despite expectations of falling returns.

2 min read · 07 December 2016

Vote now in the 2016 PEI Awards

The polls are open for the annual PEI awards – don’t miss your chance to tell us who shone this year.

2 min read · 02 December 2016

Aberdeen Asset Management opens in Abu Dhabi

The asset manager has opened its first office in the Middle East and has become the first international asset manager to establish a base in Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone.

1 min read · 16 November 2016

CVC sells majority stake in AlixPartners

AlixPartners founder Jay Alix, Canadian pension funds CDPQ and PSP Investments, and Middle Eastern investment firm Investcorp are acquiring CVC’s ownership stake valuing AlixPartners at more than $2.5bn.

3 min read · 07 November 2016

Abraaj nears $1bn target for healthcare fund – Exclusive

A final close is understood to be just weeks away on Abraaj’s first sector-focused fund.

2 min read · 07 November 2016

Industrial Bank of Kuwait boosts PE exposure

<p title="temporary paragraph, click here to add a new paragraph"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The bank will be committing capital to a further six to eight funds.</span></p>

1 min read · 07 November 2016

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