Japan-focused private equity firms expect plenty of opportunities for investment – but attracting foreign and domestic limited partners remains a challenge.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
With Asia’s economies still booming, restructuring opportunities are thin on the ground. That’s just how some distressed specialists like it, writes Brett Cole
6 min read · 15 January 2013
On a recent trip to Washington DC, Graham Winfrey found GPs and LPs hungry to cash in on the rapid growth in emerging economies, but flagged various challenges.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Michael Huber is quietly guiding TMT-focused Quadrangle back from the brink of chaos. But raising a Fund III remains far from certain as the firm focuses on investor relations and portfolio management, finds Christopher Witkowsky.
9 min read · 15 January 2013
A new era of transparency and reporting could open the door wide enough for one innovative group to craft a Moody’s type-service for buyout funds. The benefits for star managers could be greater exposure to LPs and making it easier to negotiate management fees, writes Nicholas Donato.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Peruvian firm Nexus Group has beat its target for its first international institutional fund, showing LP appetite for the region can overcome scepticism of new managers.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
US private equity firm Lone Star and other creditors are reportedly taking over Tokyo Star Bank as Advantage Partners failed to find investors for the Japanese lender.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The US buyout shop and the IFC have taken almost equal minority stakes in Bombay-listed non-banking finance company Magma Fincorp.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The global alternatives group distributed $6.4bn to investors in the first quarter this year, almost as much as the $7.5bn it returned in 2010, according to the David Rubenstein-led firm’s annual report.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The global alternatives group distributed $6.4bn to investors in the first quarter this year, almost as much as the $7.5bn it returned in 2010, according to the David Rubenstein-led firm’s annual report.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
