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The Fort Worth, Texas-based firm expanded its healthcare portfolio with the purchase of Immucor, which produces automated diagnostic products for blood transfusions.

New Mexico State Investment Council, which manages the state’s oil and gas endowment, has committed to Sterling Partners' latest fund, which is targeting $1.2bn.

The former co-head of hedge fund DE Shaw’s North American private equity team will be responsible for managing Pine Brook Road’s energy sector activities.

Secondaries provide large pension funds the opportunity to 'move the battleship' - nimbly reposition themselves, in other words, according to the head of New York City's pension fund.

The private equity arm of the French insurance giant has reportedly paid €133m for 52% of Outremer Telecom from shareholders including Apax France.

The $37.3bn pension fund will invest 11% of total assets in private equity in 2012.

The placement and advisory firm has rewarded individuals in its London and New York offices.

Amid rumours of Carlyle’s IPO, K2 Advisors would be the Washington, DC firm’s third hedge fund acquisition in the past year.

The firm has paid $44m for Vitro America, a Memphis, Tennessee-based glass manufacturer forced into bankruptcy by its creditors in November.

The US state's investment board has committed more than two thirds of newly-deployed capital to private equity funds specialising in the energy sector.