Toby Lewis

Banking on changing demographics the regional buyout firm has bought Acibadem Healthcare Services and its sister insurance company alongside the group’s founder Mehmet Ali Aydinlar.

The African remainder of CDC's energy company Globeleq will form the seed asset for emerging market firm Actis’ next $1.25 billion infrastructure fund. CDC also committed $750 million to the fund.

Credit Suisse- and General Electric-backed Global Infrastructure Partners has purchased a second add-on for its global ports platform.

Global buyout firm Advent International becomes the latest firm to encourage its team with a slew of promotions worldwide.

The Carlyle Group, the global buyout firm, has acquired KCS.net as the firm continues to do deals in the European mid-market.

3i, the FTSE 100 investment firm, kept up investing in the last quarter of last year despite the problems in the global credit markets. Chief executive Philip Yea emphasised the group’s mid-market position and international network to explain the steady investment flow.

The Nordic buyout firm has raised a later stage venture technology fund a week after it closed a real estate fund specially set up to acquire Nordic hotels.

UK mid-market buyout firm HgCapital leaving the bidding for Biffa has created a gap for Global Infrastructure Partners to team up with Montagu Private Equity, which had signed a non-solicitation agreement alongside Hg with the UK waste services company’s board.

While turmoil in the global credit markets will have and has had serious consequences for lenders during the buyout boom, larger buyouts will resurge in the next year, according to Swiss investment firm Partners Group.

The private equity firms bidding for the Turkish supermarket have tabled lower than expected bids, although should the deal complete it will be one of the largest European buyout financed since the problems in the credit markets became apparent.