Vivek Paul, a former TPG Ventures partner and CEO of Wipro Technologies, has set up his own private equity firm and has reportedly started raising capital for a $400m fund.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Private funds and investors are essential to the US Treasury’s plan to rejuvenate credit markets with the purchase of banks’ toxic assets.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The San Francisco-based secondary specialist estimates some $5bn in venture secondary assets are up for grabs.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Will the US' Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility be the kickstart the commercial real estate industry hopes it to be?
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Private investors are abandoning road and rail building partnerships in Russia after the Duma slashed its transport infrastructure budget by 90%
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Euronext-listed fund of funds Lehman Brothers Private Equity Partners is changing its name to NB Private Equity Partners and will help its bankrupt parent company unload 14.5 million shares in secondary transactions beginning in mid-2010.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The UK-listed private equity frim is reportedly considering a move into investing in debt instruments. Other firms which have recently moved to take advantage of credit opportunities include Providence Equity Partners and BC Partners.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The UK’s secretary of state for business, Peter Mandelson, last night urged BVCA members to help drive UK economic growth by backing entrepreneurial start-ups and growing SMEs ‘into world beaters’. He also addressed the industry’s efforts to battle negative public perception, noting it had surpassed its ‘pain threshold’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Fresh from raising nearly €1bn for its eighth mid-cap fund, the French private equity firm is aligning itself to take advantage of market dislocation. It is also raising its third small-cap fund.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
AREA Property Partners has teamed up with F&C REIT to buy a package of properties once owned by Dawnay Day, the property investor whose subsidiary companies were placed into administration last year.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
