Private Equity
OMERS Ventures, which launched in October, has hired Howard Gwin to help target early stage and growth investments in the North American media, technology and telecom companies.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Despite $385bn in dry powder, a weak exit environment does not bode well for private equity managers stuck with unrealised, pre-crisis assets, according to Vestar founder Norman Alpert.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The Egyptian firm intends to invest the lion’s share of the capital raised from a US government agency in Egypt to support the transformation of areas reeling from the Arab Spring.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Warburg Pincus has teamed with GS Capital Partners to acquire online service provider Endurance from private equity group Accel-KKR in a secondary buyout worth $1bn.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The partnership with South Africa’s Pangea Exploration is considering mining opportunities in Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia as well as West and Southern Africa.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s former senior vice president, COO and CFO of global private equity will now oversee PwC’s services to private equity portfolio companies at a time of market uncertainty.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
CITIC Securities will respectively commit RMB500m ($78m) and RMB200m ($31m) to funds managed by CITIC Capital and CITIC Private Equity Funds Management.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
WestBridge has raised what it is calling India's first-ever Evergreen-style private equity fund with a life cycle of 20 years and extensive recycling provisions.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm, in the first acquisition from its second fund, has acquired dinnerware designer and distributer Oneida, an iconic brand the firm hopes will prove popular with consumers in emerging markets.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
The buyout giant’s debut natural resources fund will target sub-$150m investments in the energy, natural resources and mining sectors and will share deals with Apollo’s $14.9bn seventh fund.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
