David Snow

Led by its in-house direct investment team, the Canadian pension has agreed to purchase four North American container terminals from a Hong Kong seller.

The real estate and private equity teams within Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division will help manage the giant new infrastructure fund.

The state teachers’ pension is seeking a manager or managers to help it move from fixed income assets to real estate and private equity.

The bid by Apollo Management and Texas Pacific for the Las Vegas-based casino giant could mark one of the year’s largest buyouts.

The affiliate of publicly traded buyout firm American Capital will expand its European franchise beyond its initial London and Paris footholds.

The increasingly global private equity giant will use a Moscow base to pursue investments throughout Russia and Eastern Europe.

Having built up a team of roughly 20 professionals in the region, the Boston-based private equity giant will pursue buyouts across Asia through a dedicated vehicle.

For its fourth buyout fund, Miami-based HIG Capital offered allocations only to existing investors but has succeeded in raising $750m in less than three months.

Guggenheim Partners has hired three venture capitalists from TL Ventures to pursue a ‘different type of VC practice’ focused on tapping entrepreneurs who live outside of the best known tech hot-spots.

In a deal valued at $17.6bn, Texas semiconductor maker Freescale has decided to be taken private with a group including Blackstone, Carlyle, Permira and Texas Pacific, dealing a blow to a KKR-led group that recently bought the semiconductor division of Philips.