Private Equity

Asia-Pacific

Carlyle invests $50m in Beijing school

The Washington DC-based private equity giant has invested in China’s education sector, in a week that has also seen the firm close its Warsaw office and Sydney-based Asian leveraged finance group.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Warburg Pincus portfolio company suspends trading

Hong Kong-listed GOME has suspended trading of its shares after chairman Wong Kwong Yu was reportedly detained on allegations of stock price manipulation.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Blackstone shares hit all-time low

Shares in the publicly listed firm continued to drop amid dismal third quarter reports, but one analyst sees a bright future ahead for Blackstone. Fortress Investment Group shares reached their 52-week low at $2.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Temasek puts sale of power generation company on hold

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund cited current market conditions as the reason for delaying the sale of the power generating company PowerSeraya.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

AXA leads $12m funding round for Chinese mobile search company

Shenzhen-based Easou has raised a Series C funding round from private equity firms including AXA and iD TechVentures.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

3i divests 30% stake in Nordic TV company

The UK-based private equity fund is selling its stake in Boxer TV-Access AB to Teracom, a media company owned by the government of Sweden.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Charterhouse in $1.6bn exit

The UK buyout firm will exit its majority stake in acrylics-company Lucite after nearly a decade.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

DLJ chief sees ‘slow crawl’ back to deal activity in 2009

A panel of private equity insiders, including DLJ Merchant Banking chair Nicole Arnaboldi and Carlyle's Jonathan Colby, agreed the buyout industry is in for more pain but sees US deal activity regaining momentum sometime next year.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Funds raise $3.2bn for China in October

Private equity investments have started to increase amid relaxed regulations and the Chinese government’s commitment to prevent a slow down in the economy.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Report: National pension to invest in China Development Bank

Mainland China's largest pension fund is reportedly looking to invest between RMB 20 billion and RMB 30 billion in the Chinese Bank. China's sovereign wealth fund CIC invested $20 billion in the same bank last December.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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