A new USD25m private equity fund has been raised by Aureos Capital, a global private equity fund management firm specialising in investing in small and medium-sized businesses in Asia, Afr

European private equity firm Bridgepoint has appointed the dean of leading French business school Insead, J Frank Brown, to its European advisory committee.

Francisco Rey has joined the Blackstone Group’s corporate advisory group as a London-based senior managing director, while Andrew Kuo has joined the private equity firm in Hong Kong as a m

Funds advised by private equity firm Permira, part of the SVG Capital group, have entered into agreements to acquire Tokyo-based Arysta Lifesciences, the world’s tenth largest agro-chemica

If current trends continue, India will receive USD13.5bn in private equity funding this year, ranking it among the top seven countries in the world, and investment could rise to almost USD

TPG, the international private equity firm formerly known as the Texas Pacific Group, has appointed Jerry Ng as head of Indonesia and a special adviser for South-East Asia, with primary re

Global private equity firm Advent International has recruited four new members to its Boston-based North American deal team, with Mohammed Anjarwala joining as principal and Nicholas Pike,

AlpInvest Partners has received a EUR2bn mezzanine mandate from its shareholders, the pension funds ABP and PGGM, representing one of the largest mezzanine mandates ever awarded.

Kuwait-based Global Investment House is planning a further capital distribution to its Global Opportunistic Fund II investors for the third time in seven months, following profitable exits

Mercury Partners, a real estate alternative investment management company with more than USD2.2bn of assets under management, including around USD900m of Asian real property assets, has an