Siddharth Poddar

The Egyptian investment bank's private equity arm and the French private equity firm will make growth capital investments in Egypt and the GCC countries.

The firm has sold its stake in the Chinese household appliance retailer in a pre-IPO restructuring, and is working on developing its debut private equity fund for investing in China.

The Singapore-based firm has set up a Japanese subsidiary which is headed by former Carlyle director Shigeru Fukunaga.

The firm is structuring the financing for the acquisition of two oil and gas drilling equipment companies in the US for $82m, and has agreed to acquire another in China.

SpiceJet, an Indian budget airline has landed an $80m investment from distressed specialist WL Ross, in what is the firm's second investment in the country.

The Hong Kong-listed telecommunications group has received 'a number of proposals' for its sale of a minority interest in a subsidiary. Private equity firms including TPG are reported to have bid.

Morgan Stanley Private Equity has invested $200m in E. Sun Financial through a purchase of convertible bonds which are equivalent to a 9.5 percent equity stake.

New York's Bessemer Venture Partners, has formed an advisory group of four for its Indian operations and now has 14 members on its Mumbai team.

Singapore’s Temasek Holdings latest appointment is a member of the wealthy and influential Swedish industrial Wallenberg family, dubbed the 'Royal Family of Swedish business.'

Mumbai's o3 Capital Advisors and Balu Nayar, a former regional director of Yahoo!, have launched a private equity fund where LPs commit media value, not capital.