Toby Lewis

The US bank has recruited the team of Asia Pacific-focused firm TVG Capital Partners, becoming the latest bank to increase its direct investment role in the region.

The global investment firm is hoping the UK laser eye surgery will grow rapidly over the next five years, as buyout firms look to healthcare as a shelter from the storms brewing in the world economy.

The BC Partners-led consortium has pulled off its YTL3.9 billion bid for Migros Türk in the face of strong competition including The Blackstone Group and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It is Europe’s largest deal since credit markets seized up.

Two separate investments from Standard Chartered Private Equity and First Reserve come as energy fundraising reaches record levels.

The Swiss buyout firm restructured cable and wire company Maillefer Extrusion which had suffered from the fall-out in the telecoms industry at the turn of the millennium.

The Italian buyout firm headed by Claudio Sposito, the former chief executive of Fininvest, Silvio Berlusconi’s holding company, has made its first investment outside Italy.

The Turkish alternative asset manager is set to raise a domestic mid-market buyout fund, as the country continues to attract international buyout firms while local firms grow in size and number.

Negotiations between the Chinese Investment Corporation and JC Flowers come as the sovereign fund’s $3 billion investment in Blackstone took a further hit yesterday, with Blackstone's share price reaching a new low.

Montagu and Global Infrastructure Partners have agreed their Biffa bid, but the waste disposal company board’s statement that rival bidders are in due diligence caused the company’s share price to rise five percent above the offer price.

DFJ's European venture affilate has secured a 150 percent IRR over 18 months from its sale of e-commerce website buy.at. It was also joined this week by Amazon as a backer of DVD rental company Lovefilm, marking the increased maturity of the European venture market.