Calpers board weighs curbs on investment chief’s personal holdings

Move comes after former chief resigned last month amid an internal investigation into his shares in private equity manager

Talde launches €150m fund

Spanish GP Talde Private Equity has launched a new fund with a €150m target, Talde Capital Crecimiento II, which has already raised €55m after only two weeks on the road.

PAI Partners to expand DACH operations with new hire

Ralph Heuwing is the firm's new partner and head of the German-speaking region

PAI appoints Heuwing as partner and head of DACH

PAI Partners has hired former Knorr-Bremse CFO Ralph Heuwing as a partner and head of DACH.

PAI Partners names ex-Boston Consulting Group veteran, experienced CFO Heuwing to head DACH operations

European private equity major PAI Partners has brought in veteran industrials and financial specialist Ralph Heuwing as partner and head of its DACH operations.

GP Profile: Sherpa Capital

Sherpa Capital CEO and founding partner Eduardo Navarro talks to Alessia Argentieri about the firm's latest special situations fund, as well as portfolio management strategies and arising investment opportunities during the Covid-19 crisis

‘It’s still too easy to launder money in London’

While a flexible, pro-business approach has helped build the City’s stature, 'in some areas that’s gone too far', says top law enforcer

Kilroy Buys Cheeze Kurls

Private label and contract food manufacturer Cheeze Kurls has been acquired by Kilroy Partners. Cheeze Kurls’ products include extruded, fried, and baked products as well as popcorn and party mixes which are sold to retail,

Now We Know Some Stuff

By Andy Greenberg, CEO GF Data and Greenberg Variations Capital Back in April, I wrote a commentary titled “Nobody Knows Anything” that described the immediate challenges facing the M&A industry in the wake of a

US election certainty prompts PureGym bridge launch

Strong markets on Monday morning helped Barclays and Jefferies launch the long-awaited bridge financing for PureGym’s takeover of Fitness World, one of the last pre-Covid facilities yet to come out in the capital markets.

LPs look to technology as pandemic puts analytics platforms to the test

Technology upgrades are helping investment advisers deliver faster, better information to their clients in the coronavirus crisis

Comment: Africa’s gathering debt storm

Without rapid and vastly increased external help to weather the Covid-19 storm and ease their debt-service burden, many African economies could collapse. This would directly affect the rich world in ways for which it is

Stellex Closes Big Fund, Opens New Office

Stellex Capital Management has closed Stellex Capital Partners II LP with total commitments of more than $1.77 billion and exceeding the fund’s original $1.25 billion target. Stellex closed its debut fund in July 2017 with

Berkshire Launches El Dorado Foods

Berkshire Partners has partnered with food executive Javier Vélez-Bautista to form El Dorado Foods. Mr. Vélez-Bautista now becomes the CEO of El Dorado and the new platform will be active acquiring Latin-inspired food and beverage

Benford Closes First Fund

Benford Capital Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural private equity investment fund, Benford Capital Partners Fund I LP. The new fund closed with total limited partner commitments of $130 million, markedly above

GP-backed PolyTech bolts-on Fos4x

Verdane-backed PolyTech, a Denmark-based turbine blade technology specialist, has acquired Munich-based software company Fos4x from its shareholders. 

Neuberger Berman hires KKR exec as head of Middle East and North Africa

Kaveh Samie will help grow the firm’s footprint in the regions, from its Dubai office

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