The two European buyout groups have taken a partial exit on their investment in Holmes Place, a European fitness chain, selling the UK business to rival Virgin Active.
The private equity arm of Infrastructure Finance Company has agreed to commit up to $60 million to fund a gas grid operator startup in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
US and European venture capital firm Fidelity Ventures is looking within its own and portfolio companies’ internal processes as it hunts for vertical software targets. By Robert Venes.
Through its new opportunity fund, the Toronto-based real estate investment firm has purchased 5.3 million square feet of space from an affiliate of JP Morgan Chase.
The European affiliate of buyout and mezzanine firm American Capital Strategies has increased its revolving credit facility to €900m, giving the company approximately €1.65bn in firepower.
Goldman Sachs is reportedly back to raise $10 billion for a new private equity fund after closing GS Capital Partners V last year on $8.5 billion.
Is sub-Saharan African real estate ripe for the plucking? In a recent conversation with Judy Kuan, David Morley of Actis shared why the emerging markets specialist is prudently bullish on the region’s potential.
Allianz Capital Partners has sold UK care homes provider Four Seasons Healthcare to an investment fund of the Qatar Investment Authority, despite interest from 3i and Terra Firma Capital Partners.
H&Q Asia Pacific, an Asia-focused private equity firm, has sold its controlling stake in MTV Japan to MTV Networks.
Lehman Brothers Co-Investment Partners, the co-investment fund of US bank Lehman Brothers, has joined The Carlyle Group as a shareholder in Firth Rixson, a metal manufacturing business Carlyle acquired in 2003.
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