Having come close to its €4 billion target, the European buyout firm is looking to wrap up fundraising by May.
The unrelenting rise of sovereign wealth and a promising outlook for MENA private equity funds were among the key talking points at PEI’s Middle East Private Equity Forum in Dubai.
The Investment Corporation of Dubai has pulled out of €3 billion offer for Inmobiliaria Colonial, in what would have been the sovereign wealth fund’s first major move into overseas markets.
Palamon has recruited Italian buyout professional Valerio Boccardi in its second appointment this year.
CVC, led by chairman Michael Smith, has raised Europe’s largest-ever private equity fund in spite of credit market problems making larger buyouts difficult to achieve.
Palamon has recruited Italian buyout professional Valerio Boccardi in its second appointment this year.
CVC, led by chairman Michael Smith, has raised Europe’s largest-ever private equity fund in spite of credit market problems making larger buyouts difficult to achieve.
With $10 billion in fresh powder for global real estate investment, Blackstone is adding to its Asian firepower with a Hong Kong office, president Hamilton James has told PERE.
Billionaire Wilbur Ross has agreed to provide growth capital to MBIA competitor Assured Guaranty.
Pantheon Ventures’ listed fund of funds achieved a rise in net asset value per share during the second half of 2007, which ensured that it outperformed stock market benchmarks.