Fundraising

On the south side of the equator and east of the Atlantic lies a country that some private equity heavyweights increasingly consider to be a hidden gem.

Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.

Industri Kapital has made 2.5 times its investment on the sale of Gardena, a gardening tools manufacturer, for €730 million.

Advantage Partners, a Tokyo-based private equity firm raising its fourth fund, has agreed to buy the financial business of Japan’s fallen internet giant Livedoor.

Michael Spies and his growing roster of senior investment professionals are carefully expanding Tishman Speyer's already significant footprint in Europe. Spies and company recently shared with PERE their team-oriented approach to investing in Europe's biggest cities. By Robin Marriott

The specter of time is haunting private equity real estate, as every stage of the investment process is now likely to take longer than before.

In recent days, the investment bank has announced three successive strategic investments alterative investment platforms, including a hedge fund, fund of hedge funds and a distressed investment firm, in an ongoing bid to bolster its alternative investment business.

GP Investimentos, Gaves Investimentos, Pactual and Advent International are four firms to watch as private equity deals in Brazil grow in size. David Snow profiles the biggest players in Latin America's biggest market.

Brazilian private equity professionals are trumpeting a major improvement in the country's private equity opportunity. If LPs could get other the politics and see beyond China and India, say Brazilian GPs, they'd be impressed with Brazil's vast economy, sophisticated capital markets and few competing financial investors, David Snow reports.

Texas Pacific Group and co-investors are manoeuvring carefully to avoid the grounding of their Qantas bid