IDFC Private Equity, its parent company IDFC and CDC Group are part of a consortium participating in a second round of funding for Moser Baer PhotoVoltaic.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Abraaj Capital has appointed four executive directors across its investment, portfolio management and finance teams as it looks to continue its expansion in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Israel's Infinity Equity has teamed again with China Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Venture Partners, this time to back a spin-out of Hong Kong-listed technology company Digital China Holdings.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
H&Q Asia Pacific, a private equity fund manager focused on investments along the Pacific Rim in Asia, has closed a domestically raised buyout fund, and is nearing the close of smaller fund being raised from overseas investors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The $72bn flagship company of Taiwanese financial services group Cathay Financial has become an LP for Blackstone's latest mega-fund. Andrew Kuo, an independent non-executive director at Cathay Financial, is vice chairman of Blackstone's Greater China operations and a managing director in its Hong Kong office.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
ICICI Venture is to suffer another high profile departure. Deshpande is set to leave the firm, reportedly to take a position with NEA, just months after Aluri Rao left to lead Morgan Stanley Private Equity’s India operations.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Auckland firm has also acquired a 45 percent stake in New Zealand King Salmon, the country's largest aquaculture company.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
China's first wholly domestic private equity fund is reportedly in talks with Xugong to acquire a 45 percent stake in the construction equipment manufacturer. Carlyle's bid, agreed three years prior, failed to gain regulatory approvals and stirred opposition pertaining to foreign ownership of domestic assets.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Two former JPMorgan bankers have set up Ancora Capital Management, an Indonesia-focused private equity firm, to invest in the country’s natural resources and infrastructure sectors.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
TPG, MBK Partners, Providence and Macquarie are reportedly among the firms that have made it through the first round of bidding for the media and telecommunications assets of Hong Kong-listed PCCW. Apax, Bain and Carlyle may also be second-round bidders.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
