Private Equity
The private equity firm's latest frontier market fund has raised $25m for investment in Myanmar.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Emerging market firm Actis has strengthened its African operational team by appointing James Smith as a director in its value creation group.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Paris-based private equity firm has agreed to make its first direct investment in Africa by way of a $125m commitment to telecom tower infrastructure business IHS.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
When The Blackstone Group’s Chad Pike – a US national who was previously co-head of the firm’s real estate arm and is now vice-chairman of Blackstone Europe – bought a family home in Edington, a tiny Wilshire village not far from Stonehenge, he probably thought he was acquiring a little slice of English country paradise (albeit largely for weekend use only).
1 min read · 17 January 2013
Extensive operational improvements and a strong relationship with management led Aureos to success with a Zambian egg farm, a deal that won the EMEA manufacturing/industrial category in PEI's inaugural Operational Excellence Awards.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The $65m finance facility will be CDC’s first investment since its strategy change in September 2012.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
The firm has partnered with Standard Chartered and the South Africa-based Pembani Remgro Infrastructure Fund to acquire a minority stake in agricultural company Export Trading Group for $210m.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Ex-Khazanah Nasional India head Michael Fernandes has joined the firm as it prepares to launch a new fund.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
The emerging market firm has partially exited Brazil’s largest independent brokerage with a sale to General Atlantic. It hopes to unlock further value with a forthcoming IPO.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
In Asia, more than half of the region had scores below the global average on Transparency International’s 2012 Corruptions Perception Index.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
