BTS Investment Advisors is backing the growth plans of Sai Sudhir Infrastructures with the sixth investment from its $80m fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Highland Capital Partners has hired technology specialists and former Intel Capital senior executives John Hsin and Kuantai Yeh, just five months after Intel launched its second China fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The San Francisco firm is backing the growth and acquisition plans of Aconex, an online document management company, in one of the largest Australian private equity deals of 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Actis, Cornell Capital and Nexent Ventures are among a group of private equity firms reportedly looking to partner with India's PFC to fund power projects in the country.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The global buyout firm is to acquire a 26.7 percent stake in Shriram City Union Finance, its second investment in the Shriram Group in two years. The investment will be made from its recently closed $4bn Asian fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Sean Tong, formerly a managing director at General Atlantic, has quit the firm to join Providence Equity Partners' Hong Kong office.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Large private equity firms in Asia may increasingly look to investments outside of their traditional space, writes Siddharth Poddar.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has hired Makram Azar, former global head of sovereign wealth funds at Lehman Brothers. Azar will lead its push into the Middle East and North Africa, setting up KKR's first office in the region.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The MENA-focused investment firm will fund the growth of Jordan's first privately-owned airline to tap into the rapidly growing aviation market in the Middle East. It has reportedly invested more than $150m from its $250m Intaj Capital fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Private equity investments in China for the month of August decreased by as much as 72 percent from July, in what is likely a reflection of slowdown in business activity during the Beijing Olympics.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
