Private Equity
The marriage of China’s leading and second largest media groups, both backed by private equity firms, marks the first major private sector merger in the country.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Morgan Stanley and the World Bank have taken a 14 percent stake in publicly traded Anhui Conch Cement, mainland China’s largest cement company, for approximately $215m.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt-based mid-market buyout investor has agreed its third deal in Germany in 2005.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Munich office of the US-based private equity firm has acquired Richter Chemie-Technik from its US parent.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The investment arm of the Government of Singapore has agreed to acquire 5% of China’s second-largest bank through the latter’s upcoming IPO, according to a report.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
Standard Chartered Private Equity, the private equity arm of Standard Chartered Bank, invested $20 million in the Singapore-based supplier of customised rubber products.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
The Swiss mid-market firm has acquired an 85 percent stake in the 146 year old Benninger Textile Systems.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
AXA Private Equity generated an IRR of around 45 percent in the sale of Tokheim to Electra Partners Europe.
1 min read · 30 December 2012
The Chinese company has completed the $1.25bn purchase of IBM’s personal computing unit and agreed to a $350m investment from three private equity firms.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
KPS Special Situations and Pegasus Partners have already recouped 1.5x their investment in Genesis Worldwide thanks to a unit sale to Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery.
2 min read · 30 December 2012
