Private Equity
A new strategic partnership between infrastructure fund manager HRL Morrison and New Zealand asset manager Fisher Funds will form a retail infrastructure fund expected to be available to investors early next month.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firms have launched Italy’s largest LBO this year for Milan-listed ‘architectural envelope’ maker Permasteelisa.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Less than a month after takeover talks ceased with Archer Capital, the energy company has received another private equity offer that could be worth more than A$430m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Mark Redman will oversee European activities for OMERS Private Equity, the mid-market direct investment arm of the Canadian pension.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
9 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm’s remaining co-founder has left following strategy differences with buyout chief Dominic Slade and has called for winding down of its main fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The A$65bn Queensland government-owned manager will split into nine asset class-specific divisions.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Czech Republic office of the CEE-focused firm will be led by its investment director responsible for Czech and Slovak business development, Ivan Jakubek.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The China-focused private equity firm has raised just over a third of its $1.4bn target.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Investors unhappy with hedge funds that failed to deliver on promises may give private equity greater priority in the investment mix, argues Stefan Hepp of Zurich-based SCM Strategic Capital.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
