Intermediate Capital Group, a mezzanine and leveraged loan investor and third party fund manager, has announced the closing of the Intermediate Capital Asia Pacific Fund 2008 with strong s

EQT Partners has opened a new office in Warsaw with a team headed by new partner Piotr Czapski, formerly a director of alternative telecoms operator Netsia, in what the private equity firm

Private equity firms have singled out the consumer sector as suffering plunging valuations and being most at risk of financial distress, but health care, business services and energy are s

FRM Capital Advisors, the hedge fund seeding business of fund of hedge funds manager Financial Risk Management, has agreed to provide USD75m in seeding for Beechbrook Capital’s inaugural l

London-based Electra Partners has announced it has identified Steadfast Capital as its German investment partner of choice and has invested EUR45m in Steadfast Capital Fund I, subject to G

Grant Thornton LLP, the US member firm of Grant Thornton International, has announced that Harris Smith, previously the west region managing partner, has been appointed managing partner of

Riyadh-based NCB Capital, the investment banking arm of National Commercial Bank, Saudi Arabia’s largest bank, has acquired the Capital Partnership, a specialist asset manager to instituti

Veritas Capital has sold Continental Electronics Corporation, which specialises in the design, development, and manufacturing of digital and analogue radio frequency transmitter systems fo

Private equity firms need to diversify and differentiate their businesses through the current period of economic turbulence, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers that seek

As the economy weakened during the third quarter, venture capitalists continued to rein in investments in US-based companies, according to the Quarterly U.S.