Samena looks to third-party LPs for $350 million in funding

Samena Capital, a collective investment business of businesspeople and entrepreneurs from the emerging-markets world, wants to boost the scale of its private-equity investments. It is about to make first close on its second PE fund, with its shareholders having contributed over $350 million, but it is now marketing the Samena Special Situations Fund II to limited partners, with a view to raising a total of $700 million for the fund. In addition, as it seeks bigger deals, it shou…