Former US vice-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore is to become a partner at venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and will lead inv

Close Ventures has announces a further offer of new shares for Close Enterprise VCT following the success of the initial offering for the venture capital trust earlier this year.

A group of private investors led by Madison Dearborn Capital Partners has secured the acquisition of Nuveen Investments, a US provider of diversified investment services to institutional a

Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on buyouts in central Europe, has announced the appointment of Robert Knorr, Zbigniew Rekusz and Matthew Strassberg as partners.

Alternative investment manager Angelo Gordon has established Adrenaline Family Entertainment following its acquisition of Clementon Lake Park in Clementon, New Jersey, in partnership with

The Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund has acquired a 90 per cent equity stake in South China Highway Development, which in turn owns a 90 per cent of Hua Nan Expressway in Guangz

Institutional private equity fund manager Epic Private Equity has launched a venture capital trust that will target annual dividends of at least 4p per share – equivalent to a tax-free inc

The Blackstone Group has announced invested USD65m in Hyderabad-based MTAR Technologies, one of India’s leading precision engineering companies and one that has been closely involved with

Global private equity firm the Carlyle Group and Lehman Brothers Co-Investment Partners sold Firth Rixson, a supplier of highly engineered rings, industrial forgings and specialised metal

A leading private equity executive has warned that the industry’s investment model is heading for significantly lower returns in the wake of the current credit crunch.