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Earlier this week the $165bn National Pension Service struck a $3bn deal with Oaktree Capital to pursue Korean investments.
Liu Lefei will reportedly be the new chief executive of China’s first wholly domestic private equity fund.
The firm has backed a television, telephone and high-speed internet operator in its second investment from the Aureos Central Asia Fund, a vehicle launched last year that has raised $60m and is targeting $100m.
The Australian private equity firm has sold Australian Pacific Paper Products three years after it paid A$75m to purchase the company from CHAMP Private Equity. The diaper maker has been sold to Tokyo-listed Unicharm for approximately A$170m.
The ex-vice chairman of Bear Stearns has reportedly left new parent JPMorgan to set up a private equity firm.
The Indian infrastructure-focused firm had to delay the final close for five months pending regulatory approval.
The two private equity firms are reportedly left in the race for a controlling stake in Huawei Technologies’ mobile business unit, in a deal that could be worth $4bn.
The Dubai-based private equity firm, currently raising a $1bn media, tech and telecom fund, has invested in ethernet company Turn Networks.