Private equity and venture capital firm 3i has appointed Paul Longhenry as a director in its venture capital team at its office in Menlo Park, California office, following a spell as vice-

Dubai-based Rasmala Investments has announced the successful wind up of the Rasmala Private Equity Fund 1, a fund launched in 2000 with the objective of investing in the financial services

Brysam Global Partners, a US private equity firm that specialises in consumer financial services, will make a minority equity investment of approximately USD230m in Ixe Grupo Financiero, a

This week, combative activist hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb of New York outfit Third Point announced plans to list his successful event-driven fund on the London Stock Exchange.

Steven Wignall has joined the Hedgemedia team to develop and extend a series of online community forums across Hedgemedia’s suite of alternative asset websites.

Global private equity firm Carlyle Group has established a financial institutions group to make investments in the global financial services sectors, including banking and insurance, heade

KKR PEI Investments, the entity through which the Euronext Amsterdam-listed KKR Private Equity Investors makes its investments, has concluded a USD1bn five-year revolving credit agreement

European mid-market private equity firm HgCapital has sold a majority stake in Iris Software, the UK’s leading provider of software to accountancy practices and their customers, and Comput

The Financial Services Authority says its approach to dealing with the potential risks posed by private equity has been endorsed by market participants in their feedback to a discussion pa

Limited partners in private equity funds are gaining ground on terms related to management fees, profit distributions and governance, according to the latest edition of the Private Equity