Nicholas Donato

Governments around the world are finalising rules to mitigate private equity's future potential risk to the global economy.

In a deal more than quadrupling the volume of private equity investment in the Middle East, Abraaj has taken a 49% stake in Network International.

A consortium of private equity firms has acquired Xe, the controversial private military contractor once known as Blackwater.

The industry nearly doubled the value of last year’s deals in the first 10 months of 2010 alone, with the upwards trend set to continue to the end of the year.

The France-based private equity firm has made a 3x return on the dessert platform it built up.

The Dubai-backed private equity outfit has reached agreement over key financial terms with its creditors amid a shakeup in its senior management.

Ken Spain, former National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman, will focus on public affairs and communications for the Private Equity Growth Capital Council.

The soon to be independent private equity unit of Barclays has completed its second exit in two weeks.

The European firm has hired former Inchcape executive Immo Rupf and former Bain Capital executive Ivan Kwok.

The total value of global private equity deals conducted in October marked a 12-month high, however the record is contrasted by a 12-month low in total deal volume, according to data provider Zephyr.