Private Equity
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 · 22 January 2014
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 · 22 January 2014
The firm sees life in the entertainment products retailer despite strong competition from digital streaming, online retailers and piracy.
2 min read · 22 January 2014
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 · 22 January 2014
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 · 22 January 2014
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 · 22 January 2014
The firm co-invested with SC Lowy in Shinmin Bank.
1 min read · 22 January 2014
Ten funds accounted for around 70 percent of the capital raised in Asia in 2013
2 min read · 21 January 2014
HAO Capital has sold a block of their holdings in the POS terminal maker.
1 min read · 20 January 2014
KY Tang's pan-Asian firm has closed its fourth private equity vehicle after 16 months in market.
2 min read · 17 January 2014