Apr 8, 2013 | Africa, News
(Reuters) – Kenya-based private equity firm Catalyst Principal Partners has an eye on demand from East Africa’s growing middle class as it starts to make investments from a broad $125 million fund and from a partnership dedicated to real estate....
Apr 8, 2013 | News, Western Europe
STOCKHOLM, April 5 (Reuters) – Private equity firm Nordic Capital said on Friday its Fund VIII had struck a deal to buy Danish logistics company Unifeeder from Montagu Private Equity for an undisclosed price. Unifeeder has northern Europe’s biggest feeder...
Apr 8, 2013 | India, News, South & Central Asia
Economic Times 8 April 2013 NEW DELHI: American private equity company KohlbergKravis Roberts (KKR) will purchase a 90 per cent stake in specialised tyre maker Alliance Tire Group from rival PE fund WarburgPincus and owner Yogesh Kumar Mahansaria for an enterprise...
Apr 8, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, North America, Russia, Western Europe
TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, has invested $350,000 in Graphicly, a US startup that helps publishers and self-published authors produce and distribute text and visual content on major digital publishing platforms....
Apr 7, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
The Times 5 April 2013 Alexander Lebedev sold his Red Wings airline yesterday for one rouble (2p) after a fatal crash last year led to the grounding of his fleet. The Russian billionaire — who owns The Independent and Evening Standard newspapers — said on his personal...
Apr 5, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News
WARSAW, April 4 (Reuters) – Zbigniew Komorowski, one of Poland’s richest men who built a fortune from grain and dairy markets after Poland’s democratic transition in 1989, is selling most of his agricultural holdings in a disposal that could be worth...
