Private Equity
The departure of Joshua Gotbaum from Blue Wolf Capital will not trigger a key-man clause.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity and real estate investor has sold a Frankfurt data centre for $28m to data services firm Equinix. The technology centre was the final asset to be sold from a 25-building portfolio bought by GI in 2004. The firm made a 3.7x multiple on the deal.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York-based firm’s subsidiary – Russia Partners – has bought a 3.3% stake in MDM Bank.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Matthew Day, formerly a vice president in the industrials group at Macquarie Capital Advisors in New York, has founded Black Opal Equity to make investments in US companies that service infrastructure.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Fresh from a $1.3bn fund close, the private equity firm has backed a start-up real estate investment firm led by former Lend Lease Europe chairman Nigel Hugill.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Tatsuo Kawasaki, co-founder of Tokyo-based Unison Capital, speaks to PEI Asia about the close of the firm’s third fund and the Japanese private equity industry.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
Bain and General Atlantic will submit bids estimated in the $1bn region for Morgan Stanley’s stake in CICC, while Blackstone and KKR are reportedly bidding for AXA’s stake in China’s Taikang Life.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
In its second Japanese deal in two weeks, Carlyle has offered to buy Chimney Co., an operator of the Hananomai, Sakanaya Dojo and Kodawariyama restaurant chains.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Infratil-backed Energy Developments has rejected the private equity firm’s offer as too low, but said it will not impede a similar 'off-market' takeover bid.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Four Indian institutions will receive about $140m for their combined stakes in UTI Asset Management, whose private equity subsidiary is raising its third fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
