Lazard Asset Management (LAM) is expanding in the Middle East with a Dubai office. The firm has hired senior professionals, who will provide investment solutions to clients in the Middle East. Farah Foustok will serve as a managing director of LAM and senior executive officer of LAM’s new Dubai
S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched the S&P Business Development Company (BDC) Index and licensed it to Nikko Asset Management to launch a tracker fund in Japan. The index is comprised of US-listed private equity firms that invest equity and debt capital in small and mid-sized businesses, allowing investors to
Newgen Software, a provider of business process management (BPM), enterprise content management (ECM) and customer communication management (CCM) solutions, has raised equity capital from IDG Ventures India and Ascent Capital. Avendus Capital was the financial advisor to the transaction. The investment will be used to strengthen presence in the US
AIM-quoted China Private Equity Investment (CPE) has signed a conditional acquisition agreement to acquire interests in four companies which themselves hold interests in four domestic Chinese businesses. The agreement has been signed with Elypsis Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Asia Private Credit Fund Limited, which is managed by an
Hamilton Lane, a private equity asset management firm, has appointed Mingchen Xia as principal on the fund investment team and Yen Li Chew as vice president in the business development group. The new hires will be based in Hong Kong and will further strengthen the firm's presence in the Asia-Pacific
Law firm K&L Gates has appointed Siew Kam Boon as a partner in its M&A and private equity practices. Boon, who will work out of both K&L Gates’ Singapore and Shanghai offices, joins the firm from O’Melveny & Myers.

 Boon focuses her practice on cross border mergers and acquisitions, both public
Disclosed clean technology venture investment in Israel during 2013 totalled USD249,935,000 across 13 deals, according to figures Cleantech Group’s i3 market intelligence platform. There were another seven deals with undisclosed values. According to data in i3, Israel’s top deals and their investors were: • Kaiima, an Agriculture company,
2013 was less successful than the past two years in terms of Israeli venture capital fund raising, with 13 funds raising USD526m, almost 28 per cent below the USD725m raised by 14 Israeli VC funds in 2012. This total was also 28 per cent under the 10-year average of USD732m. The
Syndiant and Tongtai Jiuyou Equity Investment Partnership Enterprise have formed a Chinese joint venture company that will focus on advancing micro display LCOS technology. Syndiant has a long-standing commitment to China – in 2010 the company opened a subsidiary in Hong Kong. The new partnership will bring Syndiant closer to the
Sprott Consulting has been awarded the mandate to co-manage a 10-year USD375m private equity fund by South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS). A matching USD375m co-investment commitment is to be provided by the state-owned Korean Electrical Power Company (KEPCO), the largest electric utility in Korea. Sprott Consulting will serve
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