International law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has announced that R.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the world’s fourth largest pension scheme, has sold a private equity portfolio valued at USD3bn to a group of five investors in what has

Ithmaar Bank, a Bahrain-based investment bank belonging to the Ithmaar financial group, has appointed Andrew Pocock, a veteran investment banker who has held managerial positions in intern

Middle- and back-office administrator OpHedge Investment Services has appointed as its new chief executive Peter Sanchez, who was most recently global head of capital markets securities wh

Hertzliya, Israel-based Carmel Ventures has announced the launch of Carmel Ventures III with commitments of USD235m and Shlomo Dovrat, Avi Zeevi, Rina Shainski and Ori Bendori as general p

Private equity firms Riverstone Holdings and the Carlyle Group have committed USD450m for investment in Dynamic Offshore Resources, a new Houston-based oil and gas company that will focus

Equinoxe Alternative Investment Services, a newly-established boutique fund administrator based in Hamilton, Bermuda, has announced a significant minority investment from a wholly-owned su

Venture capital investment in European companies topped EUR4.56bn in 2007, the highest annual total since 2002, according to the quarterly European Venture Capital Report from Dow Jones Ve

Platinum Funding Group, a US factoring company, has named Anna Belkina as senior business development officer for special situations, with responsibility for developing Platinum’s business

International Private Equity Services, which was founded a decade ago in Guernsey and provides specialist administration services to more than 290 private equity funds, has opened a new of