Private Equity
A pay-to-play scandal that has raged from New York to California will impact the way fundraisers do business with public pensions.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The investment gives the firm a 9.4 percent stake in the listed conglomerate and will be used to finance the expansion of the company’s insurance and healthcare businesses.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Jordan-based firm launched its second fund at the start of 2007 but commitments stalled in the ‘dead’ fundraising environment.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity investor, which is currently raising its fourth secondaries fund, sees its Asian secondaries activity doubling in the future.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Despite Prudential Real Estate Investors' global heft, chief executive officer Allen Smith believes the firm is as nimble, and flexible, as any boutique operation. By Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 05 January 2013
The majority of private equity funds in India are backed by large corporates, and if recent indications are anything to go by, this is not set to change anytime soon.
8 min read · 05 January 2013
Apollo, which recently appointed Sanjay Patel as international head of private equity, is the latest firm to put its cards on the table in the battle for gaming giant Gala Coral.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The IPO implies a 6x paper return for second largest shareholder The Carlyle Group, which is subject to a one-year lock-up period and has no intentions to ‘rush for the door’.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Fresh from a $1.9bn fund close, the private equity and real estate firm has doubled the size of platform company Care Aspirations.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
These 15 firms have the skills and strategies to dominate the real estate wasteland, say market insiders. PERE Magazine September 2009.
10 min read · 05 January 2013
