HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asia-focused private equity firm Affinity Equity Partners is seeking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in a new fund, sources said, testing investor appetite for Asia funds at a time when a number of global players have already launched big funds. full story ![]()
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus raised $11.2 billion for its latest fund, one of the largest private equity funds since the global financial crisis. The New York-based firm said on Friday that investors in the new fund, Warburg Pincus Private Equity XI LP, include public and private pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and wealthy individuals, with a...
yahoo.com (1 month and 8 days ago)
There is a hint of something new and unfamiliar in the air on the fund-raising front this year. It’s a scent of optimism, and it’s coming from private equity fund limited partners (LPs) that are giving off signals that they may be ready to increase new PE commitments enough to jolt fund-raising out of the flat trend it has been in since 2009 (see chart). As we describe in...
forbes.com (2 months and 4 days ago)

Goldman Sachs private equity funds have invested more than USD two billion in capital since 2006 in the country, said Ankur Sahu, co-head of Goldman Sachs' private equity business in Asia.
moneycontrol.com (13 days ago)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus raised $11.2 billion for its latest fund, one of the largest private equity funds since the global financial crisis.
reuters.com (1 month and 8 days ago)
Chinese conglomerate Fosun International is raising a $1 billion private-equity fund that will invest in Europe and international companies seeking to expand in China.
wsj.com (29 days ago)
The murky world of real-estate pricing by private-equity funds is about to become a little less murky, thanks in large part to New Jersey's state pension fund, which disclosed last month that it is putting on the block $1 billion of its positions in private-equity funds.
wsj.com (4 months and 5 days ago)

Tata Capital, part of steel-to-software conglomerate Tata Group, has raised USD 600 million for a private equity fund to invest in India, in what could be one of the largest debuts by a private equity fund targeting India.
moneycontrol.com (1 month and 16 days ago)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Silver Lake Partners, the technology-focused private equity firm backing a $24.4 billion bid to take Dell Inc private, is close to raising $10 billion for its latest fund, exceeding its initial fundraising target on strong investor demand, according to a person familiar with the matter.
reuters.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Silver Lake Partners, the technology-focused private equity firm backing a $24.4 billion bid to take Dell Inc private, is close to raising $10 billion for its latest fund, exceeding its initial fundraising target on strong investor demand, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
reuters.com (3 months and 5 days ago)
Pine Tree Equity, a private equity firm based in Miami, said on Monday that it closed its third private investment fund of $100 million. The latest fund was “materially oversubscribed beyond its $100 million cap,” the company said.
miamiherald.com (2 months and 4 days ago)
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