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Maheshwar Nataraj has been appointed as the new head of BlackRock’s private credit business in India, succeeding Dhruva Agarwal, who is leaving the business after four years for family reasons, according to a report by Bloomberg.
For International Women’s Day this year, Private Equity Wire spoke to Meryem Bensaid (pictured), a Principal at Blackstone, and Private Equity Wire’s sister title Hedgeweek spoke to Trudi Usher Boardman, Head of Hedge Funds at Pictet Alternative Advisors.
A number of big-name buyout firms including Carlyle Group, CVC Capital Partners and KKR have all shown preliminary interest in striking a take-private deal to acquire Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Stonepeak, an alternative investment firm specialising in infrastructure and real assets, has held the final close of Stonepeak Asia Infrastructure Fund with $3.3bn in total capital commitments, in excess of its original $3bn target.
Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, which is managed by global investment manager Ninety One and operates within the multi-donor Private Infrastructure Development Group, has secured $294m in additional debt facilities, representing over half of the fund’s $500m target by 2025.
GREYKITE Investment Adviser, a newly launched private capital investment advisory firm led by Founder and CEO Michael Abel, has secured a strategic capital investment from Capital Constellation, a platform managed by global alternative asset manager Wafra, and Leucadia Asset Management, a diversified alternative asset management platform and a division of Jefferies Financial Group.
MiddleGround Capital, a Kentucky-based middle market private equity firm specialising in B2B industrial and specialty distribution companies across North America and Europe, has acquired IT8, a provider of engineering services.
Specialist global impact investment firm Blue Earth Capital has completed a $30m direct credit investment in Q Collection, a Singapore-headquartered vertically integrated apparel manufacturer with manufacturing operations in Bangladesh.
Middle Eastern private equity firm Foursan Group has acquired a 33% stake in Medjool Village, Jordan’s largest vertically integrated grower, packer and exporter of medjool dates, marking its seventh investment via its third fund, FCP II.
UK mid-market private equity firm Limerston Capital has closed its second fund, Limerston Capital Partners II, with total commitments of £245m from both existing and new LPs across the US, Asia and Europe.
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