GP Investimentos, Gaves Investimentos, Pactual and Advent International are four firms to watch as private equity deals in Brazil grow in size. David Snow profiles the biggest players in Latin America's biggest market.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
Brazilian private equity professionals are trumpeting a major improvement in the country's private equity opportunity. If LPs could get other the politics and see beyond China and India, say Brazilian GPs, they'd be impressed with Brazil's vast economy, sophisticated capital markets and few competing financial investors, David Snow reports.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
Texas Pacific Group and co-investors are manoeuvring carefully to avoid the grounding of their Qantas bid
7 min read · 12 January 2013
HarbourVest, Lexington Partners and Partners Group have invested in the Nasdaq-listed buyout firm’s new fund.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
A multitude of government institutions and formally established family offices make the Gulf Region a rich source of capital for the world's leading GPs. The most significant local player is ADIA, the giant investment authority in Abu Dhabi.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Taking full advantage of ultra-liquid debt markets, buyout funds are handing big sums of cash back to investors. As holding periods shorten, are limited partners in danger of getting too comfortable with private equity's new short-termism, asks Philip Borel.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Electra Private Equity, the recently renamed UK investment trust, is hoping to gorge on new deals after seven years of profitable abstinence.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Having agreed a $375 million deal with Anglo-US investment manager AMVESCAP, turnaround specialist WL Ross is now a captive fund.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
UK technology manager has established a dedicated VC secondaries fund in an industry first with two deals already in the portfolio.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Two years after closing EQT IV, EQT Partners is back in the market raising a new buyout fund.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
