Private Equity
Pantheon Ventures, a private equity fund of funds specialist, has invested $12.5 million in a Chinese wood flooring manufacturer backed by The Carlyle Group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
KPS Capital Partners will pay $400 million for the metals business of Olin Corporation. The deal is KPS’ first from its latest distressed fund, which closed on $1.2 billion in June.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Global Emerging Markets Group has agreed to acquire a 49 percent stake in a coking coal reserve in Inner Mongolia. The deal is GEM’s second direct private equity investment in the country.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The mezzanine management arm of CLSA Capital Partners, an alternative investment group based in Singapore and Hong Kong, has led the financing of Asia Water Technology, a Singapore-listed company operating in China.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
3i has invested $30 million in John Hardy, a Hong Kong-based jewellery designer brand manufactured in Bali and sold in the US. The private equity investment will provide an exit for the founders of the family-run business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
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
Bear Stearns has created a private trading platform, which will bring the total number of such private US exchanges to four.
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
