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Johnny Randel will lead the private equity advisor’s monitoring and reporting and financial activities from the firm's newly opened New York office.
The US banking regulator, the FDIC, has placed 702 institutions on its “problem list”. Lenders have written off 2.6% of their real estate loans to date – the highest level since records began.
Réal Desrochers retired in 2009 from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the second largest US public pension, after having led its alternatives programme for a decade. In an excerpt from PEI’s new book, Risk Management in Private Equity, Desrochers discusses key elements LPs must consider during the manager selection process.
The tie-up with China's largest private investment house furthers Carlyle's aggressive expansion into the country, where the firm has so far invested more than $2.5bn.
European private equity firm Triton is buying healthcare platform Ambea for €850m.
Citadel Capital has become a significant shareholder in Rift Valley Railways, which holds a concession to run a railway line between Kenya and Uganda.
The Cairo-based firm has bought an additional 9% stake in the company from one of its LPs, Emirates International Investment.
Wilcom, Japan's fourth largest telecoms operator, has filed for bankruptcy.
Venture fundraising and deal activity continued to plummet in Canada in 2009. Private equity numbers slid too, but less precipitously.
Managers from private equity firms around the world met in New York this January to share best practices in private equity finance, operations, valuation, regulation, compliance, and tax. Here are some key observations from the event.
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