Private Equity
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1 min read · 21 September 2013
Investor sentiment in Asia's two largest markets was down significantly in 2012, reflected in the steep drop in fundraising. However, KKR managed to raise the region’s largest fund ever.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The Hong Kong-based firm has acquired a controlling stake in an industrial operation divested by China’s ZTE Corporation.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The firm sees life in the entertainment products retailer despite strong competition from digital streaming, online retailers and piracy.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The London-listed private equity firm has formed a joint venture to invest in Myanmar while putting deal activity on hold in Mongolia.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
As China’s Innovation Works begins investing Fund II, it will have less emphasis on the maturing mobile internet and more on startups targeting SME productivity, an emerging sector.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
Japan's Asahi Breweries is alleging it overpaid for Independent Liquor, which it bought from the private equity duo in 2011 for NZ$1.53bn.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
In a tough year for China private equity, Carlyle closed seven deals and realised about $2bn. The firm's 2013 deal pipeline is `robust' said X.D. Yang, co-head of Carlyle Asia Partners.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
Pacific Equity Partners introduced the buyout in Australia over a decade ago and has consistently raised the country’s largest funds. As it prepares to raise Fund V in a difficult climate, co-founder and managing director Tim Sims tells Drew Wilson that PEP still has an edge over its local and international rivals
10 min read · 21 September 2013
The Southeast Asia-focused firm has made the fourth investment from its separate Malaysia growth fund.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
