Suzanne Weinstock

The investment management company for University of Texas and Texas A&M Systems has sold its interests in 14 funds after unsuccessfully shopping 25 funds last year.

The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System’s Ohio-Midwest Fund has now committed $72m to 12 regionally-focussed private equity funds.

The emerging markets-focussed private equity firm has sold 10 percent stake in pipeline company Transredes at a profit for for $46.6m, in compliance with Bolivia’s nationalisation of the oil and gas sector.

The biggest LBO proposed to date has reportedly hit a financing snag just weeks before it was expected to close.

The UK asset management firm is preparing to cross the pond and has appointed Eric Nelson to spearhead sales for US alternatives.

The Los Angeles alternative investment firm has raised the largest ever distressed debt fund, more than three times the size of its previous similar vehicle.

Verso Paper opened nearly $2 below its IPO price, even after being adjusted downward by the private equity giant.

The debt markets for infrastructure have turned a corner, the CFO of a major infrastructure investor said today at a conference in New York.

The emerging markets specialist will have preferred access to the Central American nation's junior stock market.

The majority of limited partners expect 23 percent returns from 2008 emerging markets investments, according to the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association’s 2008 LP Survey.