Just weeks after raising South America's first billion-dollar fund, GP Investimentos signed the region's largest-ever buyout agreement.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
The Brazilian private equity firm’s $1 billion acquisition of Pride International’s Latin American Land Drilling and E&P Services businesses is the firm’s first pan-Latin American investment. It is also the first time it has used leverage, and the firm’s – as well as the region’s – largest private equity deal to date.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Litorina Kapital has bought Securia Systems, a personal insurance and protection company that has enjoyed 90 percent sales growth over the last two years.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Alvarez & Marsal builds China team * Watson Wyatt appoints Sydney specialist * IFC appoints new South Asia head * NEA promotes six * Vestar Japan completes line-up * H&Q Asia Pacific promotes two in Seoul * Deutsche hires former Temasek director * CVC poaches Keeble from UBS
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The private equity firm is committing $100m to a joint venture with Williamsburg, Virginia-based hotel REIT MHI.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Unitus Equity Fund has decided to set aside 10 percent of its profits to help the world’s poor gain access to microfinance.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
In March, PEI Asia got hold of Mark Mobius, the globetrotting managing director of Franklin Templeton Investments, in Panama and asked him for his thoughts on the Shanghai stock market crash and its implications for private equity.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Bear Stearns Merchant Banking has sealed its first deal, paying an undisclosed sum for two Latin American consumer finance businesses.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
On the south side of the equator and east of the Atlantic lies a country that some private equity heavyweights increasingly consider to be a hidden gem.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Michael Spies and his growing roster of senior investment professionals are carefully expanding Tishman Speyer's already significant footprint in Europe. Spies and company recently shared with PERE their team-oriented approach to investing in Europe's biggest cities. By Robin Marriott
9 min read · 12 January 2013
