Private Equity
The UK government’s investment arm dedicated to emerging markets has placed $100m into a vehicle focused on property in African—its first commitment to a fund focused solely on property.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Les Bider has left his position as ‘executive-in-residence’ at upstart private equity firm Elevation Partners to become chief strategist at Los Angeles-based venture firm ITU.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
US group Bain Capital has agreed a $3.5 billion deal for South African retailer Edgars Consolidated Stores, the largest buyout ever recorded in the country.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Google has revealed that its acquisition of YouTube last year netted a return of nearly $500 million for Sequoia Capital, the US venture capital firm behind the video sharing website.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Cognetas, a European private equity firm, has completed its second deal this week with the sale of an aluminium manufacturer to a consortium for €430 million.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Two private equity firms, one in Hong Kong, and the other in London, are poised to take a controlling stake in a mobile phone operator in New Zealand that has been attempting to break the country’s duopoly.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
US turnaround specialist has bought two automotive suppliers – one German, the other Japanese – for $305 million as US billionaire Wilbur Ross continues to extend his global exposure in the sector.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
