Fundraising

India's ICICI Venture gets into healthcare * GSJBW fund fully invested * Goldman, CDH win Chinese meat auction * LF Asia acquires menswear brands * IDFC lines up Indian stockbroker * Morgan Stanley to acquire Korean trader * Oak revisits India strategy * Carlyle retains Taiwan media focus * ChrysCapital exits via secondary * Allco, DB Capital acquire debt collector * Backing for Kiwi nursery firm * CHAMP consumes food firms * GIC, Olympus go organic in China

The US and UK alternative asset management firm has raised over €1bn for its second mezzanine fund focusing on transactions in Europe.

AnaCap Financial Partners, a new pan-European private equity firm focusing on the financial services sector, has raised an oversubscribed €300m vehicle.

In April, Private Equity International gathered together a group of leading European private equity professionals to reflect on deepening liquidity in the leveraged finance market. The rise of the institutional investor was a major talking point, reports Andy Thomson.

The creator of a European online lending business has raised €300m for a debut private equity fund.

KKR is about to test the market's appetite for listed LBO funds.

SVG Capital and its fund management business, SVG Advisers, have committed to invest a combined €3.8bn in the new Permira IV fund, which is targeting €8.5bn in total.

American Capital may have launched its European affiliate, European Capital, on the back of its one-stop buyout shop approach, but the firm aspires to be more than a one-trick pony. By Robert Venes.

TowerBrook Capital Partners has held a $1.3 billion final close on its inaugural fund. The TowerBrook team spun out of Soros Asset Management in April of last year.

As capital continues to flow into private equity real estate, GPs are gaining the upper hand in negotiating the terms of their fund documents—but that doesn't mean LPs are staying quiet. By Paul Fruchbom