The economic crisis has eaten into short-term prospects for private equity in the MENA region, with many GPs putting investment activity on hold. But confidence in the region has merely been dimmed, not extinguished. Jenny Blinch reports.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
There has been little progress toward making the International Financial Reporting Standards a good fit for private equity, and hence scant adoption by the industry in Europe
4 min read · 08 February 2013
By 2002, after four years in charge of Silvio Berlusconi's holding company, Claudio Sposito had had his fill of the media spotlight. Since then, he has been attempting to make Milan-based Clessidra the leading private equity firm in Italy. Andy Thomson discovers he has developed a new interest in toys
9 min read · 08 February 2013
A Scottish diagnostics firm is marketing new technology to identify cervical cancer – with the help of venture capitalists
2 min read · 08 February 2013
In Germany, an iconic maker of model trains has gone bust
6 min read · 08 February 2013
The over-commitment strategy used by many listed private equity vehicles has gone from being a virtue to a vice, but it will survive
3 min read · 08 February 2013
A Terrible idea 2009-03-01 Staff Writer Design guru Michael Peters, the man who redesigned the UK Conservative Party logo in the 1980s, has gathered £10 million (€11 million; $14 million) for a private equity fund with a bit of swagger. Creative Capital Ventures only invests in business for which Peters is p
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The troubled UK lender will no longer provide long-term project finance loans with durations of more than 15 years but it will continue to make such loans of 'appropriate length', according to people familiar with the matter.
4 min read · 08 February 2013
The buyout firm will walk away from Italian yacht manufacturer Ferretti, which under the current restructuring plan will remain in the control of the management team led by chief executive Norberto Ferretti.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The Delhi-based firm has held a first close for its third private equity fund, which aims to raise $250m by the end of the second quarter.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
