Boston-based private equity fund of funds manager HarbourVest Partners has announced the promotions of seven investment professionals, with Jeffrey Keay and Christopher Walker becoming pri

Vietnamese investment management company VinaCapital is teaming up with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson to launch a USD50m technology frontier fund.

Dell has agreed to buy EqualLogic, a Nashua, New Hampshire-based provider of storage area network solutions specially designed for virtualisation, for USD1.4bn in cash.

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