Middle East

Aliph Capital was launched in 2021 by Huda Al-Lawati, former partner and CIO for MENA at the now-collapsed Abraaj Group.

The sovereign wealth giant has raised its allocation for the asset class to up to 15% of total assets and has a bullish outlook on secondaries and direct lending.

The Gulf and Southeast Asia are two of the fastest-growing regions in the world today, making the corridor connecting the two a rich seam of investment opportunities, say Gulf Capital’s Karim El Solh and Shantanu Mukerji

Clearlake picks up the prize for deal of the year for its $3.1bn takeover of Chelsea Football Club

Demographic shifts and the rising cost of care in Asia have boosted interest in the market, according to the SWF’s head of life sciences for direct investments in America.

Hani Othman Baothman, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s Sidra Capital, explains how the firm’s partnership with BlackRock will provide sharia-compliant co-investment capital to GPs in the Arabian Gulf.

Home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies, the Gulf and Southeast Asia are building local and global economic ties as part of the development of a new Silk Road, say Gulf Capital’s Karim El Solh and Shantanu Mukerji.

The darling of so-called ‘growth markets’ investing took just half a year to unravel in a saga that has yet to conclude.

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and France's largest private markets investment firm are understood to have been in discussions about a deal as recently as mid-October.

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