The investment arm of the World Bank is backing microlender Bandhan Financial Services even as controversy continues to surround the industry.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The Carlyle Group is setting its investment focus on mezzanine opportunities in the energy sector with the launch of a new fund.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm, led by Leon Black, invested about $23bn through the financial downturn including more than half of its $14.7bn seventh fund, which closed in 2008.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
After closing its third deal, the San Francisco-based firm said the scale of opportunities in the US recapitalisation market could see it invest the remainder of its $250m debut fund this year.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The China-focused firms have invested RMB500m in a biometric identification technology company for an undisclosed stake.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
The Carlyle Group is setting its investment focus on mezzanine opportunities in the energy sector with the launch of a new fund.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm, led by Leon Black, invested about $23bn through the financial downturn including more than half of its $14.7bn seventh fund, which closed in 2008.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Morgan Stanley Credit Partners raised just under $1bn for its debut fund, which focuses on corporate mezzanine deals in North America and Europe.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Behrman Capital recently executed two transactions, a dividend recapitalisation and spin-off, linked to its $303m acquisition of defense contractor ILC Industries in 2003.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
But the ‘financial engineering’ of the future will be defined more by growth in hybrid and mezzanine debt and equity and less by over-leveraging of infrastructure projects, according to an infrastructure report by AMP Capital Investors.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
