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Tethys Investment Management joins EMPEA

Tethys Investments has become a full member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), joining the ranks of more than 300 PE funds (including a few PE funds from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region) with USD5 trillion assets under management. Tethys Investments is the first and only

Equitis optimistic on outsourced ManCo services to European regulated PE funds

Founded in 2000, Equitis Gestion is one of France’s leading private equity management companies and sees big opportunities ahead as both non-PE groups and US PE groups look to invest in the European markets.  Philippe Bertin (pictured), Managing Partner and one of the three founders of Equitis, tells Private Equity

Anastasia Williams, TMF Group

US PE managers targeting higher yield opportunities in Asia Pacific and Europe

With US private equity managers contending with record high valuations in US markets, seeking out attractive yield opportunities has become a considerable challenge.  Granted, last year saw a number of significant fund launches. The most notable were Apollo Global Management’s USD24.7 billion Apollo Investment Fund IX – the largest PE

Cooley sees continued US private equity interest in Europe

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, law firm Cooley has grown on both US coasts in tandem with the technology and life sciences sectors; two areas of the market for which the firm is best known for.  Cooley is a full service law firm but its growth has been influenced both

ICG’s latest direct lending fund is truly unique

ICG, the specialist asset manager with EUR27.2 billion of assets under management, announced earlier this month that it had raised EUR5.2 billion of dry powder to deploy in the third vintage of its Senior Debt Partners strategy.  The capital raised for Senior Debt Partners III (SDP3) makes it the largest

KKR Partners with Ron Voigt to pursue middle market industrial businesses

KKR is teaming up with Ron Voigt, formerly an executive at Danaher Corporation, to work together to identify and acquire mid-market businesses in the industrials sector. Together with KKR, Voigt will focus on acquiring manufacturing businesses generating roughly USD25 to USD50 million of EBITDA. Once a company has been acquired,

Nomura to enter private equity market with initial JPY100bn investment

Nomura Holdings is extending its range of services by investing an initial JPY100 billion in establishing a new private equity business. Under the new business, Nomura will primarily provide equity to clients as a solution for business reorganisations and revitalisations, business succession as well as management buyouts.   Effective 1

Ropes & Gray comments on outlook for private equity in 2018

The London team at Ropes & Gray has made some predictions for the private equity market in 2018, against the backdrop of market uncertainty caused by a range of factors including Brexit. Phil Sanderson (pictured), private equity partner at Ropes & Gray, says:  “M&A in the UK will remain resilient

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