Managers
Keensight Capital, a Paris-based private equity firm focused on European growth buyout investments, has opened a new office in Singapore.Â
Stephen Schwarzman, the CEO of the world’s largest private equity firm, Blackstone, earned $896.7m in pay and dividends in 2023, an almost 30% decline from the record $1.26bn he took home in 2022, according to a report by Reuters.
Ares Management’s special opportunities strategy, currently a business within its private equity group, will be joining the firm’s credit group and renamed opportunistic credit.
GPs are more optimistic about the outlook for their businesses than they were 12 months ago with economic uncertainty and recessionary fears having less of an impact than previously anticipated, according to a new report.
Mustafa Siddiqui, a longtime Blackstone executive who has led the firm’s division that invests in other private equity firms since 2020, is to leave as part of a wider reorganisation of the business, according to a report by Bloomberg.
European private equity investor Perwyn has opened its third office in Milan, which will be headed by locally-based Investment Director Maxime Menu and Paris-based Partner Mathieu Antonini, following its opening in Paris in 2021, as part of the firm’s plans to expand its European footprint.Â
Luxembourg-based private equity firm CVC Capital Partners is preparing to make its first big deal in Australia over 14 years after it closed its office there, with the acquisition of struggling employment services provider APM, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.Â
Alternative investment giant Blackstone has started construction on its 226,000 sq ft European headquarters, which is located on the site of the former Lansdowne House in Berkeley Square, London. The commencement ceremony was attended by Blackstone’s CEO and Co-Founder Stephen Schwarzman, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the US Ambassador to the UK, Jane Hartley.Â
Blackstone has withdrawn its bid to acquire a stake in the company holding the media rights to German football’s Bundesliga as opposition from fans to the involvement of foreign private capital reached fever pitch, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Alternative fund managers are concerned about the growing threat they face from money laundering risks and their organisation’s focus on anti-money laundering management is set to increase over the next 24 months, according to new research from Ocorian, a provider of regulation and compliance services for funds, corporates, capital markets and private clients.
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