The US private equity firm is spending £410m on a central London office building.
The increasingly global private equity giant will use a Moscow base to pursue investments throughout Russia and Eastern Europe.
Southern Cross, an Australian venture capital firm that was established only at the start of the year, has held a first close for an early-stage technology fund on A$100 million.
The Nordic alternative assets investor has followed up an exit earlier this week with an acquisition today.
The US bank remains deliberately vague on the details, but in an interview its chief financial officer confirmed plans to reverse its 2004 decision to abandon private equity investing.
Stockholm-based Aberdeen Property Investors has announced a $91m first close for its Asia real estate fund of funds vehicle.
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.