Private Equity
The firm will exit Intelligence, a Japanese recruitment services company it held for only three years, through a trade sale to a Japanese corporation.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
Several recent divestments in Japan have been well above average multiples, highlighting the country’s increasingly liquid market.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The Tokyo-based firm, led by former Ripplewood executive Kenji Ueda, has helped move two investments out of loss positions by bringing them into China.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The private equity firm, led by a co-founder of Hony Capital, has launched a second fund and is raising money from US LPs.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
China’s cross-border deals can go sour without local knowledge, according to Mandarin Capital, which has facilitated 10 deals between Chinese and Italian companies.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The Japan-focused private equity firm has added two executives to its Tokyo team as it prepares to invest Fund II.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
The Japan-focused firm has promoted four of its executives to partner as it considers raising a new fund.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
The European buyout firm is selling part of Jakarta-based Matahari Department Stores, which it acquired in 2010 in Indonesia's first LBO.
1 min read · 21 September 2013
TrimCo in 2005 was a small Hong Kong-based supplier of care-and-content labels to apparel brands that manufactured in Southern China. It was a 30-year-old, family-owned shop that had reached a plateau – just the kind of business that appeals to Navis Capital Partners, a small-cap buyout firm based in Malaysia.
5 min read · 21 September 2013
Alibaba’s tricky PE-led buyback of Yahoo! shares was China’s largest private deal ever – and the Chinese side delivered a stand-out performance before a global audience.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
