Apollo's Sanjay Patel and Hamilton Lane's Juan Delgado Moreira (pictured) were among speakers who pointed to interesting investment opportunities amid global economic turmoil.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The European Union is planning to spend some €1.5trn to interconnect the continent’s transport networks over the next 20 years. With national budgets stretched to the limit, the private sector is a natural port of call. But investors are sceptical.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
A club of 12 banks is providing a seven-year loan to fund the team’s recent acquisition of GDF Suez’s Italian gas grid and re-leverage two other local gas grids bought over the last two years. AXA/F2i is now Italy’s second-largest gas distributor.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Julian Carreras, who left Palamon Capital Partners in 2006, has re-joined after stints at Cinven and Thesan Capital, as the firm looks to bolster its Spanish coverage.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The two groups will provide an initial $400m to invest in Turkey and the surrounding region, and may raise a further $600m next year.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The $26.2bn system has committed $750m to a ‘strategic partnership’ with TCW spin-out Crescent Capital Group. South Carolina previously set up a $759m separate account with Apollo Global Management in 2009.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
China-focused Spring Capital was launched just before the 2008 credit crisis hit. Founder and chief executive Vincent Chan tells PE Asia how the first-time fund coped with a difficult fundraising process and how it differentiates itself in China’s growing private equity market
6 min read · 15 January 2013
UK opposition leader Ed Miliband singled out private equity this week as an example of 'bad business'. The argument may have been weak, but the sentiment is significant.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
The Stockholm-based firm, which is approaching the end of fundraising for its sixth fund, has hired Christian Broberg from CD&R.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Private equity real estate firms have taken to filling the large, deep void left by commercial banks and other traditional real estate lenders. PERE Magazine, October 2011 issue
10 min read · 15 January 2013
