A review prepared by Almeida Capital regarding European fundraising in 2005 with a view to 2006.
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By Megan Davies and Ola Galal
DUBAI (Reuters) – Private equity bosses expect the financial crisis to get worse before it gets better, with soaring borrowing costs and stress in their portfolio companies the big concerns.
The credit crisis and turmoil of the past week have been the latest piece of bad news for a private equity [...]

The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan showed it can handle more than BCE last week by picking up a $1-billion (U.S.) industrial cleaning company from a rival private equity fund.
In what’s expected to be an increasingly common transaction between fund managers with very different agendas, the deep-pocketed Teachers fund bought Aquilex Holdings from Harvest Partners, a [...]

OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension funds with a track record of exceptional performance, is weathering the current credit crisis and is taking its secret of success global. OMERS now has a presence in London UK.
To accelerate its expansion into private market investments and to take the next step in establishing a global footprint, a [...]

Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is working with other investors on the purchase of a U.S. energy company worth more than C$10 billion ($8.6 billion), Chief Executive Officer Michael Nobrega said.
“We have a pending deal in the U.S. energy sector, which we haven’t announced yet,” Nobrega said today in a telephone interview from London. “Our [...]

Walkers, the global offshore law firm of choice for companies, financial organizations, and international law firms, has seen an increased interest from the private equity industry in distressed assets, particularly banks and financial companies. Private equity has a demonstrated ability to take on risk, improve efficiencies and profitability, and turn companies around. These qualities make [...]

By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The credit market freeze has scuttled many large-scale acquisitions, but lending for smaller deals is still flowing and has been dented only modestly, according to people involved in such transactions.
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SHANGHAI, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Shanghai is considering tax and other incentives to lure venture capital, private equity and hedge funds to China’s financial hub, a senior city government official said on Friday.
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LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – Private equity real estate fundraising defied slumping property markets in the third quarter, consultancy Preqin said on Wednesday, as investors hoped for cheap property buying opportunities in coming years.
Preqin, which produces data on private equity, hedge funds and other parts of the financial sector, said $30.8 billion was raised in [...]

AMSTERDAM, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Cash-rich companies that do not depend on bank financing will continue to buy up smaller rivals, helping to sustain M&A activity over the next six months, according to a study released on Thursday.
M&A activity will also come from companies who are forced to trim down operations due to the economic [...]