UK regional turnaround specialist Endless has called in the bigger firepower of US fund Sun Capital, through its European arm to co-invest in Pearl Fittings, a manufacturer and supplier of plumbing fittings.
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.
Benjamin Fanger and Xiaolin Zhang met as MBA students at the University of Chicago. They’re now scouring the NPL portfolios of China for value investments. By Aaron Lovell.
The New York-based private equity firm launched by Ripplewood veteran Ian Snow last year will acquire Excel Mining Systems.
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.
On the heels of recent residential and IT investments, Trikona Capital has announced a JV to invest in a mixed-use township center in Thane, Mumbai.
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.
US private equity firm Avista Capital Partners announced its $100m investment in seismic technology provider Geokinetics, to help finance the company’s $125m acquisition of its oil-exploration rival Grant Geophysical.
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