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Bear Stearns Merchant Banking will place an increasing focus on financial services companies as it seeks to differentiate itself from other ‘captive’ models.
Warburg Pincus and Cinven, the US and European private equity firms, have won a €2.6bn auction to buy Essent Kabelcom, a Dutch cable operator, following the withdrawal of Liberty Global, a US cable business.
The Canada Investment Fund for Africa, to be managed by emerging markets-focused firms Actis and Cordiant, will target mid-market opportunities across Africa.
GI Partners, a trans-Atlantic private equity firm, has raised $1.45bn from investors including CalPERS, ATP and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
The UK government’s investment arm dedicated to emerging markets has placed $100m into a vehicle focused on property in African—its first commitment to a fund focused solely on property.
New York-based Conduit Capital Partners has wrapped up fundraising for its third fund targeting power generation projects in Latin America, with commitments totaling $393 million – making it the largest PE fund to be raised for the region since 1998.
Private equity has extended to the far corners of the world, cropping up in some unexpected locales. Judy Kuan speaks with Robert Fogler, co-founder of the Rwanda-focused Thousand Hills Venture Fund, about the role for private equity in a smaller market – but one that might well be on a fast-track for growth.
EMP Global, a private equity investor in emerging markets specialising in direct investments, has hired James Seymour, a fund investment veteran.