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Actis increases investments in emerging markets

Actis, an emerging markets private equity specialist, announced that it has invested US$50 million to acquire a substantial minority stake in Integreon, the leading global provider of legal support, research and business services to law firms, financial institutions and corporations, based in London, Los Angeles and Mumbai.
As part of this investment, JM Trivedi, Actis’s Head [...]

South Africa to increase regulation of PE

Africa’s largest private equity market plans to overhaul its financial regulatory system and expand its oversight of private equity activity.
South African Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan said Wednesday the country plans to reform its financial regulatory system and expand oversight of “hedge funds, private equity and credit ratings agencies”.
He made the remarks during a speech presenting President [...]

Actis invests US$50 million in Integreon

Actis announced today that it has invested US$50 million to acquire a substantial minority stake in Integreon, the leading global provider of legal support, research and business services to law firms, financial institutions and corporations.
As part of this investment, JM Trivedi, Actis’s Head of South Asia, and Gautham Radhakrishnan, a Director at Actis, will join [...]

Venture capitalists buy into Twitter ‘for 100m’

Twitter, the social networking site used by everyone from Oprah Winfrey to British royalty, was said at the weekend to have received venture financing that values the company at about 1bn.
Twitter received 100m in the deal, according to two people at the weekend who wanted to remain anonymous because terms of the agreement are private. [...]

Private equity may be on cusp of “golden age”

The near collapse of the global financial system, which wiped out trillions in corporate value and personal savings, may be giving way to a new “golden age” for private equity investment, Silver Lake Co-CEO Glenn Hutchins said in an interview on Tuesday.

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