Private Equity
The Switzerland-based clean energy private equity firm has promoted William Nesbitt, who joined the firm's solar team in 2007, to managing director. Nesbitt has participated investments including a $140m financing for solar power company Solar Reserve.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A $6bn fund targeting financial services closed last year will downsize to $4.5bn in commitments. TPG is telling investors an influx of US government rescue cash to the sector has diminished opportunities.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Mumbai-based Aditya Birla Private Equity, an Aditya Birla Group subsidiary, has started raising capital for a sector-agnostic $250m fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has rewarded three members of its investment team following a spate of deals in 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Italian alternatives firm – one of Southern Europe’s earliest international private equity fund of funds operators – has hired Seth Lieberman to head up its new global real estate platform.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Kuwait-based firm has acquired a quarry and site for a cement plant in Tunisia on a Greenfield plot over 220 hectares.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Oliver Blechner has resigned amid reported rumours of a personality clash at the top.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The Florida-based firm joins several other high-profile private equity firms that have cut back on staff to control costs amid recession.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The fund has bought out all non-Barclays investors in another Barclays private equity-managed fund, Infrastructure Investors. The transaction is meant to give the newly raised fund ‘critical mass from the outset’.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The global private equity firm has made the hire to support its investment advisory activities in the financial services sector.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
