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The Asian A-listPEI Asia presents the 2009 Asian winners in the tenth annual Private Equity International Awards.
- Veteran GPs triumph in PEI Awards
Apax, KKR, Oaktree and H&F were among the long-established firms taking top honours in the highly regarded Private Equity International Awards 2009.
- Revealing rumours
False rumours that Affinity plans to raise Fund IV this year indicate some positive things for Asia's private equity industry, writes Jenny Blinch.
- Affinity is latest to seek Australian IPO
The Hong Kong-based firm has hired Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank to advise on the listing of Loscam. The IPO of the Australian pallet maker could reportedly raise up to A$800m.
- Private equity firms eye Chinese wind developer
Chinese and foreign private equity firms have submitted first-round bids for a minority stake in Honiton Energy.
- Vogo to market Fund II
The Seoul-based firm, which has fully deployed its maiden fund, aims to raise up to $858m.
- Unitas gets nine bids for Buy The Way
The majority of the bids from private equity firms and Asian banks were worth more than $260m.
- KY Tang: This time it's different
The chairman and managing partner at Hong Kong-based Affinity Equity Partners offers his 'Top ten reasons' why this time it's different for the private equity industry.
- Affinity in $242m Korean exit
The Hong Kong-based firm has sold its 70.2% stake in cosmetics company TheFaceShop for an estimated 3.5x return.
- Asia’s rising stars
PEI Asia asked some of the region’s leading private equity LPs to name their pick of the Asia Pacific region’s “first-time” funds. The results are the eight names listed on pages 16 and 17. While some of the people may be familiar, having already made their mark elsewhere in Asian private equity, the firms they run now are probably not – yet. They have had the toughest of challenges thrown at them, in the form of the economic downturn, but the expectation is that these eight firms will go on to establish themselves firmly in the bedrock of the Asian private equity industry. Reporting by Jenny Blinch, Siddharth Poddar and Yvette Choo