KKR is reportedly among the firms eyeing a $1.5bn deal for a Citi-owned Japanese telemarketer. If agreed, it would mark KKR's first Japanese LBO since opening in Tokyo.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The listed fund of funds surpassed its target, selling shares at or above its current stock price.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Private equity firms invested $301m in India’s renewable energy sector last year, a ten-fold increase from 2006. The numbers are expected to keep climbing.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The New York power-focused private equity firm will acquire power plants and a 15% stake in the major US power generation corporation, now struggling with liquidity issues.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
One of the few Indian companies raising an infrastructure fund that is not a banking conglomerate said it was aiming to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in the sector.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
As part of the US REIT’s efforts to reduce its debt load, Maguire Properties is handing over control of seven buildings once valued at more than $1 billion. The properties were bought between 2004 and 2007. LBA Realty is reportedly taking over one asset, Park Place I.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The power-focused private equity firm will acquire power plants and a 15% stake in the major US power generation corporation, now struggling with liquidity issues.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The New York-based alternative investment firm revealed it has closed on a deal to buy 1,200 home loans from Lehman Brothers’ Asia subsidiaries for its first ever Asia-focused fund.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
A new KPMG survey of private sector infrastructure practitioners has identified government effectiveness as the top challenge in addressing infrastructure development needs.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
US House of Representatives has voted to pass a bill that would give the SEC and the Federal Reserve the power to regulate compensation at private firms with more than $1 billion in assets. The wording of the proposed law excludes most private equity firms, however.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
