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Morgan Stanley Private Equity has formed a strategic partnership with Jesus Reyes-Heroles, the former Director General of Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), to pursue energy investments in Mexico and across Latin America.
The goal of the partnership is to build a leading regional energy company involved in a broad base of investments and related activities across the energy sector. The partnership will focus on investments in energy companies to help enhance business growth, improve profitability and provide valuable strategic and financial guidance.
Dr Reyes-Heroles is an experienced executive in both the private and public sectors of the Mexican energy industry. In the
OpenGate Capital, a global private investment and acquisition firm, has reached agreement to acquire the Latin American (LATAM) portfolio of businesses of global ICT service provider Getronics International, a subsidiary of KPN, a leading telecommunications and ICT provider in The Netherlands.
The acquired portfolio consists of three distinct country-wide operations located in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, businesses that employ more than 2,000 professionals and provide a highly specialised range of services in workspace management, connectivity, datacenters, and consultancy to the largest global enterprise accounts in each of their respective countries. KPN’s divestment of Getronics LATAM is in accordance with its
The majority of private equity fund managers (70 per cent) – regardless of fund size – expect to close only two or three deals during the next 12 months, according to the third annual PErspective private equity study by BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading accounting and consulting organisations.
However, that’s an increase from 2011 when nearly half (47 per cent) of fund managers reported closing no new deals and another 19 per cent reported closing only one new deal. Small funds — those with less than USD250 million in assets under management (AUM) — were the
Laurent Vanderweyen (pictured)has joined Alter Domus – an independent provider of professional administration services for multinational corporations and alternative investment funds – as CEO of its Luxembourg office and Global Head of Fund Services.
“I am confident that Laurent is the right person to lead and drive the development of Alter Domus’ Luxembourg office, our firm’s headquarters, and foster our current international Fund Services offering” says Dominique Robyns, President and Chairman of Alter Domus, who is now devoting greater attention to the firm’s international expansion efforts. Since 2007 Alter Domus has established 14 new offices and desks worldwide and has
Avenue Capital Group has appointed Stephen Trevor as a Senior Managing Director focusing on distressed-for-control investments. He will split his time between the firm’s New York and London offices.
Trevor, 48, previously was co-head of the private equity business within Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM), as well as co-head of Morgan Stanley Merchant Banking and Asset Management. He also served on the Management and Risk committees at Morgan Stanley, which he joined in 2007. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Trevor was a Managing Director in the Principal Investment area of Goldman Sachs, and a partner at the firm. Trevor joined Goldman Sachs in 1992, and
Bill Crossan (pictured), managing partner at Growth Capital Partners, looks to 2012 and why, despite a gloom-laden economy there is still cause for optimism…
We stand in unprecedented times. None of us can be certain what the future holds, but what we can be certain of is that we need to adapt, innovate and change to both see us through the depths of the recession and to create value for our investors.
I don’t think any of us expect 2012 to be easy but so what! LP’s expect us to do our job and we will just have to work
Global private equity investor Actis is paying USD102 million to acquire a significant minority stake in Brazil´s prestigious University Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional.
Founded in 1965 Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional today has a total of 36,000 students across eight sites. Offering both undergraduate and post graduate study, long distance learning and higher education the University has been widely recognised for its academic excellence.
Cruzeiro do Sul Educacional is currently made up of three institutions; the University Cruzeiro do Sul (São Paulo-SP), Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal (Brasília-DF) and Centro Universitário Módulo (Caraguatatuba-SP). It was awarded the highest grade by the
An affiliate of Sun European Partners, the European adviser to Sun Capital Partners, has acquired Bonmarché from the Administrators, KPMG.
It is intended that the business will trade from approximately 230 stores, thereby providing continued employment to approximately 2,400 employees in the UK. However, in order to ensure that the company can be placed on a sound economic footing, it is anticipated that approximately 160 stores will be closed.
Bonmarché is one of the UK’s largest women’s only value retailers focused on selling affordable, quality womenswear in a wide range of sizes to women over 45 years old. Ranges include casual
International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a new global financial investors group to deliver a fully integrated offering to global financial investors, including Private Equity, Infrastructure Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) and Alternative Capital Providers (ACPs).
Led by corporate partners Ludwig Leyendecker (pictured) and David Higgins, the new group will bring together multidisciplinary teams that are at the cutting edge of complex multijurisdictional financial investor transactions, and support clients around the world by delivering a full service practice with deep finance, M&A and anti-trust capabilities.
‘Freshfields is consistently regarded as the firm of choice for complex cross
Castle Hall Alternatives, a specialist provider of operational due diligence to global investors, has expanded its activities to Europe, opening a new office in London. Michael Bolger, ACA CFA FRM, recently joined Castle Hall as Director to lead the firm’s European due diligence practice.
“We are delighted to expand our business in Europe and welcome Michael to Castle Hall,” says Chris Addy, CEO. “Our new location will enhance our ability to conduct due diligence on European asset managers and will allow Castle Hall to strengthen its relationship with our European clients.”
Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, Castle Hall’s London office continues
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