Siddharth Poddar

Michael Ricciardi, Enrique Cuan and Alan Pardee will lead the 24-strong team for Mercury Capital, which will raise private equity, private equity real estate and infrastructure funds globally.

Michael Ricciardi, Enrique Cuan and Alan Pardee will lead the 24-strong team for Mercury Capital, which will raise private equity, private equity real estate and infrastructure funds globally.

Michael Ricciardi, Enrique Cuan and Alan Pardee will lead the 24-strong team for Mercury Capital, which will raise private equity, private equity real estate and infrastructure funds globally.

Michael Ricciardi, Enrique Cuan and Alan Pardee will lead the 24-strong team for Mercury Capital, which will raise private equity, private equity real estate and infrastructure funds globally.

Last year’s fundraising volumes seemed to suggest Asia-focused private equity funds were on the up and up. Emerging Asia saw a record volume of funds raised, far exceeding any other emerging region  A mighty total of $39.7 billion was committed, representing a 38 percent increase from the $28.7 billion raised in 2007, according to statistics […]

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.

The investment bank's private equity arm has teamed with the Khartoum-based sugar company to invest in large-scale infrastructure projects in the Sudanese and Egyptian agriculture sectors.

The institution may commit up to $20m in Global Energy Fund’s South Asia Clean Energy Fund, which aims to raise $200m.

The India-focused private equity firm is reportedly upping its stake in the publicly traded telecom infrastructure company.

Private equity firms invested $301m in India’s renewable energy sector last year, a ten-fold increase from 2006. The numbers are expected to keep climbing, says a new study published by accounting firm Ernst & Young.