TXU Corp’s shareholders have approved the USD32bn buyout by Texas Energy Future Holdings, formed by a group of investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Texas Pacific Group.

Ventech has announced the closing of its third Venture Capital Fund – Ventech Capital III – at EUR150m as targeted.

Six senior investment professionals have joined the Carlyle Group’s recently-formed Global Financial Services Group.

Columbia Business School has established a new Private Equity Program (PEP) under the direction of Professor Laura Resnikoff.

Battered San Francisco real estate investment trust Luminent Mortgage Capital said this week it has repaid roughly USD1bn in warehouse lines of credit.

Jonathan Miller, former Chairman and CEO of America Online (AOL), and Ross Levinsohn, former President of Fox Interactive Media (FIM) at News Corp, have become advisors to private equity f

Curt Selquist, a former company group chairman with Johnson & Johnson, has joined the Water Street Healthcare Partners, a Chicago private equity firm focused exclusively on the healthc

Catalyst Investors, a private equity fund with a focus on media, telecommunications and related Internet services, has announced the final closings of two funds — Catalyst Investors II, L

Venture capital trust manager Close Venture is to make a GBP6.5 million investment in the 19 bedroom Stanwell Hall hotel, situated a mile from the new Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow airpo

The State of New Jersey has teamed up with global investment bank Lehman Brothers to form the New Jersey Directed Investment Fund (NJDIF), a USD105 million private equity vehicle designed