Local private-equity fundraising in China is defying a global slowdown, making an already tough market for deals even more competitive.
Elsewhere in the world, fundraising for private equity funds is down considerably from three years ago. But funds in China denominated in the country’s own currency, known as both the yuan and the renminbi, are seeing [...]

A year after the financial crisis subsided, the $2.5 trillion private-equity industry is finding the easy money may be gone.
Managers saddled with $1.6 trillion in buyouts made during a three-year boom have marked at least 6 of the era’s 10 biggest deals at or below cost, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. About $470 billion [...]

Private equity is heating up in Latin America.  As a way to beef up returns, non-Latin American investors and consultants increasingly are interested in investing their private equity dollars in Latin America.
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Private fund managers are accustomed to addressing traditional social responsibility concerns of investors focused on avoiding investments in “sin” industries (such as alcohol, tobacco, gambling and firearms) or “bad actor” countries (such as Cuba, Iran and Sudan). Recently, however, the focus of many investors is shifting beyond negative restrictions on investment to the integration of [...]

The Limited Partners Clean Energy Roundtable is an exclusive event for institutional and family investors who are refining their approaches to clean energy investing through venture capital and private equity funds.
Presented in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Industry Growth Forum – the nation’s premier clean energy venture forum – the Roundtable will deliver [...]

Private equity firms have incentives both to buy and sell right now. Pressure is on to invest billions of dollars raised in 2006-2008 as the end of those funds’ investment periods approach, while funds are also keen to sell or take public existing investments to reward under-pressure investors.
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The conditions look ripe — debt markets are up, companies’ valuations soft — but foreign private equity firms eyeing deals in Australia may now have to put their plans on ice as general elections loom and a controversial tax on profits remains unresolved.
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What do rampant miners have to do with buyout firms playing pass-the-parcel and dabbling in leveraged loans? They all speak to private equity’s lingering hangover.
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IF PRIVATE-EQUITY outfits were once the kings of capitalism then during the credit crunch they behaved a bit like George III. Gripped by a bout of madness, they overpaid for firms at the top of the economic cycle and loaded them with too much debt. Today private-equity types are quick to admit things got out [...]