Private Equity

Middle East

Advent opens in Istanbul

The global mid-market firm has opened an office in Turkey, where it first became active in 2001.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Riverside does first Turkish deal

The global mid-market firm is the latest attracted to Turkish companies, having purchased pet food maker Tropikal.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

StanChart names MENA chief

Taimoor Labib, who joined Standard Chartered in March from Riyadh-based Jadwa, will head the bank's MENA and Turkey private equity operations.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Venrock downsizes for Fund VI

The venture firm established by the Rockefeller family has closed its sixth fund on $350m, nearly half the size of its 2007 predecessor.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Temasek's portfolio value recovers to 2008 levels

Asia, and other growth markets including Latin America, remains the sovereign fund's key investment focus for the next 10 years.

3 min read · 05 January 2013

OPIC answers Obama’s MENA call with $455m FoF

Citadel Capital and Abraaj’s Riyada Enterprise are amongst the recipients of a White House-backed fund to support technological development in the Middle East.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

CVC pulls out of $1.5bn joint bid for Healthscope

KKR is now bidding alone for the Australian hospital operator against a trio comprising Blackstone, TPG and Carlyle.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

GMR Energy raises another $100m

IDFC, Argonaut and Ascent Capital are among the latest firms to back the Indian power generation company, which two months ago received $200m from Temasek.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

SPECIAL REPORT: The PERE 30

Over the past five years, the top 30 private equity real estate firms in the world have raised more than $211 billion -10 percent more than when PERE last counted capital raising efforts by the industry. Read on to discover the firms garnering the most. PERE Magazine May 2009.

10 min read · 05 January 2013

KK daVinci poised for $4.5bn sale

Tokyo-based KK daVinci is reportedly in talks to sell three prime offices in the city. A sale would come hot-on-the-heels of the firm’s $142 million divestment of the Lietocourt Arx residential tower to Kuwait’s St Martins Group.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

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