Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
Former General Electric CEO Yoshiaki Fujimori will join the London-headquartered firm as it ramps up investments in Japan.
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As regulators across the world increase scrutiny on Chinese transactions, sellers are more willing to ‘go for the lower price in exchange for deal certainty,’ according to private equity practitioners from White & Case.
The Boston-based firm has raised $3.3bn for its latest growth equity vehicle and $730m for its fourth venture capital fund.
The Hong Kong-based buyout house has added a cross-border allocation to its China Fund III which is expected to hit a $2bn final close by June.
The Tokyo-based firm is set to hold a final close on its latest fund in the coming weeks.
Hiromichi Mizuno, who joined the pension giant in 2014 as its first-ever CIO, will serve until end-September 2017, in line with a law to reform GPIF’s governance structure from October.
The US private equity and credit investment firm plans to refocus on the US and Europe.
The firm will pick up PENM Partners’ $100m stake in Masan Group and invest an additional $150m in the company’s meat platform.
The deal is part of a larger transaction which sees Actis acquire 44.4% of the company for a total investment of $65.5m.
Capital from the Mumbai-based firm will be used to expand the Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences in India and the Middle East.