The Blackstone Group has announced that Dr Alan Muney has joined the firm’s private equity team as an executive director and will lead an effort across Blackstone’s 52 portfolio companies

US private equity firms have broken last year’s fundraising record with USD263bn raised in 364 private equity funds so far this year, according to industry newsletter Dow Jones Private Equ

Dubai International Capital, the international investment arm of Dubai Holding, has acquired Alliance Medical, a provider of diagnostic imaging services to the European healthcare sector,

Fiderion, a global retained executive search firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, has launched a private equity group dedicated to recruiting senior-level talent for private equity firms involv

Butterfield Bank Guernsey has passed the milestone of USD12bn in assets under custody at the end of September, representing an increase of more than 82 per cent from the bank’s USD6.8bn in

PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed Pars Purewal, a partner since 1995, as head of its UK alternative investments practice, covering hedge funds, private equity and real estate, responsib

The record amounts of capital that have poured into private equity over the past year continue to drive increasing compensation levels in the industry, according to the 2008 Private Equity

ACP Capital has confirmed that it has approached the UK asset-based finance firm Davenham Group with a possible offer and expressed disappointment that Davenham’s board has rejected the ap

Michael Hehn and Eric Fry have joined Morgan Stanley as managing directors at Morgan Stanley Private Equity with responsibility for building the global private equity business for third-pa

European private equity firm Cinven has agreed to acquire Coor Service Management Group, the leading integrated facilities management company in the Nordic region, from 3i for a total of a