Turkish investment management and advisory services firm GlobalTurk Capital has established a partnership with early stage emerging markets private equity investor Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF) to explore investment opportunities in Turkish small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The two firms will reportedly jointly raise a private equity fund focused… Read More
As 2012 came to a close, EMPEA reached out to a number of the industry’s leading practitioners to solicit their reflections on the year gone by, and to glean insights on the prospects for emerging markets private equity in the year ahead. The Global Firms’ Views Paul Fletcher, Senior Partner,… Read More
Download the full article here. Over the last few years, we have seen a significant drop in private equity capital flowing into emerging markets, with a greater percentage of this funding concentrating on a fewer number of larger funds active in a handful of core markets. Average… Read More
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the development finance arm of the U.S. government, has approved a US$40 million commitment to CapMan Russia II, a Russia-focused private equity fund managed by Finland-based CapMan Group. The capital is intended to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Russia’s outer provinces. Read More
A consortium of investors, including Russian private equity firm Baring Vostok Capital Partners, Russian asset manager UFG Asset Management, the government-owned Russian Direct Investment Fund and media entrepreneur Paul Heth, has acquired a controlling stake in Russia’s Karo Film Group. Karo owns and operates 31 movie theaters with 197… Read More
Ukraine-based private equity fund manager Horizon Capital has agreed to sell its 100 percent stake in local life insurance company Fidem Life to Netherlands-based insurance, pensions and asset management company Aegon. Horizon first invested in the insurer in 2010 through its Emerging Europe Growth Fund II. Financial details of… Read More
CEE-focused private equity firm Innova Capital has acquired a 52.8 percent stake in Romanian electrical engineering services company EnergoBit Group. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was a co-investor in the transaction. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. Read More
Russia and CIS-focused private equity firm Elbrus Capital has invested in Russian express delivery service SPSR-Express. As part of the transaction, Elbrus will acquire a portion of the stake currently held by the Russian Retail Growth Fund, which is managed by Russian private equity firm Svarog Capital Advisors. The… Read More
Global private equity firm Trilantic Capital Partners has sold its stake in Turkish restaurant operator Istanbul Doors Group to Doğuş Group, a Turkish conglomerate. Istanbul Doors Group operates 35 restaurants in five countries including Turkey, the United Kingdom, Russia and Azerbaijan. Trilantic first invested in the company in 2008;… Read More
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