US venture capital firm Mayfield has stepped up its India focus with the appointment of two local investment professionals and a new office in Mumbai.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Lone Star has sold a 13.6 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank after a long-drawn investigation into the acquisition caused the sale of the firm’s entire interest in KEB to be abandoned. Separately, Lone Star sold Kukdong, a construction company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Talks between Lone Star and Singapore’s DBS Group, involving the sale of the US private equity firm’s stake in Korea Exchange Bank, have ended due to still-unresolved investigations over Lone Star’s purchase of the controlling stake in 2003.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity infrastructure specialist Global Infrastructure Partners has opened an office in Hong Kong and appointed a new partner to lead its Asian investment activities.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Baring Private Equity Asia, together with a Kuwaiti investor, is offering to buy the remaining shares it does not hold in Courts, a Singapore-listed furniture retailer with operations in Thailand.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Lone Star has sold a 13.6 percent stake in Korea Exchange Bank after a long-drawn investigation into the acquisition caused the sale of the firm’s entire interest in KEB to be abandoned. Separately, Lone Star sold Kukdong, a construction company.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
TPG Capital and Affinity are proposing to delist a Singapore-listed semiconductor company for $1.4 billion. The offer follows a failed $1.6 billion buyout offer from Temasek Holdings for STATS ChipPac, another Singapore-listed chip company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Private equity infrastructure specialist Global Infrastructure Partners has opened an office in Hong Kong and appointed a new partner to lead its Asian investment activities.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Talks between Lone Star and Singapore’s DBS Group, involving the sale of the US private equity firm’s stake in Korea Exchange Bank, have ended due to still-unresolved investigations over Lone Star’s purchase of the controlling stake in 2003.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Istithmar has acquired a control stake in a $130 million hotel being developed in the heart of Bangkok’s commercial district. It is the latest in a series of planned investments in the region by the Dubai-based group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
