EnCap Investments, a private equity firm based in Houston and Dallas, has closed EnCap Energy Capital Fund VII with total capital commitments of USD 2.5 billion.

Cos Cob, Connecticut-based Pegasus Capital Advisors revealed that it closed its fourth private equity fund in early Q4, hitting the USD 750 million cap that had been set.

HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), a closed-ended investment company incorporated in Guernsey, has announced the successful offering of shares on Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext

Canadian private equity firm Ubequity Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in PCE Investors, an infrastructure platform for hedge fund managers, from its previous owner, the brok

Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group has agreed to plough in USD2.25bn in embattled discount brokerage E*Trade Financial Corp.

Raj N Vora has joined the private equity team at Northern Trust Global Advisors, the group’s multi-manager arm, to focus on portfolio management, sourcing and due diligence of new investme

With more than USD30bn invested through the first three quarters of the year, venture capital activity in the US, Europe, China and Israel in 2007 is on pace to post its highest annual inv

VantagePoint Venture Partners has expanded its investment team with the appointments of venture capital industry veterans Tom Bevilacqua and Bill Harding as managing directors and co-heads

Graphite Capital, the UK mid-market private equity specialist, has backed the GBP 100 million management buy-out of Alexander Mann Solutions (AMS) from global private equity group, Advent

Pension funds, endowments and foundations that responded to a recent survey across the world are forecasting that over the next two years they will dedicate an even larger slice of their t