The fund’s manager NextEnergy Capital, a renewable energy-focussed merchant bank, is looking to use abundant leverage available for clean energy infrastructure projects.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The Central and Eastern European mezzanine firm has tapped investor demand to invest in the hybrid form of debt as the credit crunch has pushed it centre stage.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The French fund of funds’ fundraising success comes as its core European mid-market remains buoyant despite difficulties in the worldwide credit markets.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Dennis Lopez, head of real estate at asset-backed shop Cambridge Place, has joined an emerging markets firm owned by India's Khemka family.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
TPG's $800m pure equity stake in the country's biggest pharmaceutical distributor should allow the global buyout firm to tap into the fast-growing Russian market.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The global mid-market buyout firm attracted interest nearly double its planned €5bn target, but it scaled back the fund giving existing limited partners priority.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The global bank has cut half the members of its 27-strong team. Deal fees from private equity have collapsed on the back of the credit crunch, as banks have pulled back from larger buyout deals.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Industry figures have come out in defence both of financial engineering and the range and diversity of the asset class saying it does not depend on leverage for returns.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The UK mid-market firm has paid only a seven times profit multiple to acquire an engineering company dependent on the oil and gas sector.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Google luminary Douglas Merrill has been recruited by Terra Firma to oversee EMI’s digital music strategy in a newly formed digital music division, as the UK buyout firm’s cost-cutting continues apace.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
