Private Equity
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’ new office in São Paulo will be led by Jorge Fergie, who worked on the private equity team at McKinsey & Company.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The French firm, which is targeting €2bn for Fund V, helped the valve supply company achieve double digit growth during its two years of ownership.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Two years after Invesco acquired the Asian real estate business of AIG, the firm is raising an $800m opportunity fund and a rare open-ended, core-focused vehicle for which it expects to attract $1bn in five years.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
GPs worried they could be on the hook for a bankrupt portfolio company’s pension plan are being advised to consider a co-investment strategy – an issue highlighted by a recent district court ruling in the US.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The Houston-based firm has invested roughly 50% of its debut fund and expects to be fully committed in the next six to nine months, says managing director Frost Cochran.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Craig Nickels, who took over the private markets portfolio at Washington University in 2007, now manages US fund investments for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The niche secondaries investor - which has helped firms including SVG with refinancing needs - had a 75% re-up rate for a fund that's more than double the size of its predecessor.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Intermediate Capital Group has closed its new fund three months ahead of schedule, having increased its investor base in the US and Asia Pacific.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The ministry of finance has said the General Anti-Avoidance Rule that will impact private equity investors in the country will not be implemented until 2015.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The A$1.7bn Australian superannuation fund plans to divest all investments in the media company due to consistently bad corporate governance.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
