Private Equity
Former H&Q Asia Pacific managing director Andrew Kuo has joined The Blackstone Group’s growing Hong Kong staff as a managing director for greater China.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Pantheon Ventures and secondary investor Nova have bought the scientific laboratory business of Barloworld as it looks to grow the business overseas.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Olympus Capital Holdings Asia has invested $28 million in a joint venture established with China-listed cement producer Sichuan Golden Summit.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
CVC Asia Pacific has spent $225 million to acquire shares in a bottle maker in the largest private equity investment in tradable A-shares of a China-listed company.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Alliance Boots is expanding into China less than a year after US buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts took the company private alongside Stefano Pessina - beginning the emerging markets expansion plans cherished by the Boots executive chairman.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK Chancellor has said troubled UK bank Northern Rock may elude the grasp of private bidders, despite US bank Goldman Sachs reportedly soliciting sovereign wealth funds on behalf of the government.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
TPG Capital, the US-based private equity firm, is reportedly keen to acquire up to a 40 percent interest in Japan-listed NIS Group, a Tokyo-based lender to small businesses.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Computer network company 3Com will be taken private by Bain Capital in partnership with Chinese networking group Huawei.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Riverside Company opened its first Asian offices in Tokyo and Seoul last year, and has now completed its first deal in the region with the acquisition of Japanese parking lot operator Shinsouki.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
First Reserve hopes to take advantage of soaring nuclear power industry demand for uranium with an acquisition in South Africa.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
