Private Equity

Middle East

SHUAA Partners looks to raise $730m for hospitality

The Dubai-based private equity firm is nearing the first close of its $200m MENA-focussed hospitality fund, and has begun marketing another $530m fund specifically for Saudi Arabia.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

BrightSource Energy raises record $115m Series C round

The VantagePoint-backed solar energy company has raised fresh capital from a bevy of new investors, just two months after landing the largest-ever US government solar contracts.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Qiming Venture Partners closes $320m fund

The China-focussed venture capital firm has raised its second fund and expanded its investment team in the country.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

NBK launches fund of funds for India

The Kuwaiti bank has launched a fund of funds to provide its private banking clients with an opportunity to invest in rapidly growing Indian companies.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Dubai Capital invests alongside Citadel in glass factory

The Dubai Holding-owned buyout firm and the Egyptian firm have partnered sealing another private equity deal in the increasingly active Egyptian buyout market.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

TPG re-finances private jet firm

TPG-backed XOJET has secured nearly $2.5bn in debt and equity financing from investors and has agreed a separate joint venture with Tasameem Real Estate to establish a hub in Abu Dhabi.

3 min read · 04 January 2013

Baring Asia raises $1.5bn

Jean Eric Salata, the Asian firm’s chief executive, said investor demand had been particularly strong because of its low-leverage growth focus.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Lightspeed raises $800m for Fund VIII

The oversubscribed fund will deploy ‘substantial capital in China, India and Israel’ while maintaining the firm’s US focus.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

NBK Capital closes $125m Kuwait fund

The Middle East investment firm's third private equity fund will allow foreign contractors in Kuwait to fulfill ‘offset obligations’ through an investment in the fund.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Abraaj buys Egyptian medical testing group

The UAE buyout firm has taken an Egyptian laboratory group private, as it continues in the vanguard of private equity firms in the North African country.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

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