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Japan ripens for exits(2)Several recent divestments in Japan have been well above average multiples, highlighting the country’s increasingly liquid market.
- KPS offers LPs two fee/carry options(2)
LPs can choose a 1.75% management fee and 25% carried interest, or a 1% fee and 30% carry in KPS' Fund IV, which is targeting $3bn.
- PEI Asia Forum: Liquidity to boost exits(2)
Capital flows into Asia reached a new $1.5bn peak over the last three months, a development welcomed by the region's private equity firms.
- PEI Asia Forum: Valuations ‘really matter’(2)
GPs must prioritise getting reasonable valuations in Asia, with PIPE deals often limiting the ability to enter at good prices or influence businesses, according to speakers at PEI's Asia Forum.
- Linden hires Providence exec(2)
The firm has added two operating executives this year, bringing its team of operating partners to nine.
- PE collusion case continues(2)
A federal judge refused to dismiss a case alleging some of the world’s top LBO firms colluded on mega-deals made during the industry’s golden era, but said plaintiffs have fallen short of proving an overarching conspiracy.
- Romney returns to private equity(2)
Mitt Romney will join son Tagg Romney’s Boston-based firm Solamere Capital in a part-time capacity and will not participate in fundraising, according to a report.
- Pagliuca: Bain helped create ‘hundreds of thousands of jobs’(2)
Bain Capital managing director Steve Pagliuca claimed the firm’s investments have created ‘hundreds of thousands of jobs’ at an industry conference last week, and arguably did a better job than Mitt Romney explaining the numbers.
- EMEA buyouts down in 2012(2)
Despite a surge in overall M&A in the fourth quarter, a recent study found European private equity posted negative growth in activity for the whole of last year.
- Japan’s interest in foreign assets may dwindle(2)
Japanese trade buyers have been targeting acquisitions in foreign markets such as Southeast Asia. However, a depreciating currency could make offshore acquisitions less attractive.