Carlyle hires for MENA push * Merrill Lynch to expand Asia financial sponsor coverage * Former ANZ Capital director sets up own firm * SAC hires private equity team * Gulf Finance House reorganises private equity * Oaktree Capital installs Asia chairman * Blackstone opens in Hong Kong
4 min read · 12 January 2013
PEI Asia takes a look at some of the key movers and shakers in South Korean private equity.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus was found guilty of the insider trading of LG Card shares.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
2006 was an exceptional year for EQT, the Northern European LBO investor based in Stockholm. Here Conni Jonsson, the firm's CEO, reflects on the successes of the recent past and the challenges facing private equity in the near future.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Pacific Equity Partners in Sydney is preparing to organise a A$4 billion Australasian buyout fund – by far the largest such entity ever raised. Philip Borel reports.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Johannes Huth, managing partner of KKR and head of European operations
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Merrill Lynch has made several key appointments in Asia in leveraging the region’s private equity boom.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Can portfolio companies be both environmentally responsible and commercially attractive? Jo Nash investigates.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Eleven different groups have expressed an interest in bidding for struggling airline Alitalia, according to the Italian government, including Texas Pacific Group and Terra Firma.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
A private equity consortium of Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and Pacific Equity Partners has approached Veda Advantage, Australia-listed credit checking company, with a $636 million proposal.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
