The Nordic buyout firm is overhauling its senior deal team in Finland, where it has not made an investment since 2005.
The private sector arm of the World Bank may join Blackstone and Citi in contributing to a $5 billion Indian infrastructure fund.
US investment bank Lehman Brothers has reportedly hired Jeb Bush, the US President’s brother, to advise its private equity business.
Yale University has reportedly said that Sequoia severed its relationship with the $18 billion endowment after it declined to invest in some of the firm’s newer, Asian vehicles.
AlpInvest Partners is set to open an office in London, as Europe’s biggest private equity investor continues to expand its global reach.
The two Salt Lake City firms completed the acquisition of MITY Enterprises, an industrial furniture supplier.
Global real estate firm Hines and investment partner CalPERS have reportedly sold the 919 Milam office building in downtown Houston to Chicago-based Transwestern Investment Company.
The industrial property investor hopes to bring its total Japanese investment to $7.9bn by the end of 2009, its Japan chief says.
Franko Neumetzler, the owner of German lighting company SLV Group, has sold a sizeable part of his majority stake to European buyout firm HgCapital, as he looks to resolve succession problems at the company he founded.
The Swedish government’s buffer funds, which underpin the country’s pension system, want to plough more money into private equity after the asset class helped them generate strong returns in the first six months of 2007.