The central and eastern European veteran manager has closed the largest fund ever for the region, turning away €600m of commitments, and plans to extend its activity to the Ukraine and Croatia.
Henderson Equity Partners’s has agreed a £886.9m takeover of John Laing, a UK developer, while simultaneously holding a €830m close on its latest PFI secondary fund.
The private equity unit of the eponymous New York merchant bank today announced that Carlyle and Thomas Weisel Partners alum Alan Menkes has been named managing director of its private equity business.
A southeast Asian fund has embarked on a roadshow to raise up to $500 million with at least 50 percent dedicated to Indonesia.
For its fourth buyout fund, Miami-based HIG Capital offered allocations only to existing investors but has succeeded in raising $750m in less than three months.
The US alternative assets powerhouse is coming back to market with a European offering that will secure its place at the pinacle of the buyout megafunds for now.
AIG Global Investment Group announced that it has closed on a $700m co-investment fund to invest in ’top-tier’ private equity buyout deals.
The New York-based firm has closed its second fund oversubscribed, exceeding its initial target of $200 million.
The US investment bank has taken a stake in an upper scale residential developer for its third special situations fund.
Johnnic Holdings, a Johannesburg investment holding company, has made a commitment of as much as $43.5m to New York-based Blue Wolf, a new, government- and labour-focused middle-market buyout firm, led by two former New York City comptroller investment executives.