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Star playersWe present a quick guide to the firms – and the private equity stars behind them – making waves in the Chinese private equity industry.
- Temasek to invest $200m in GMR Energy
The smaller of the two Singaporean sovereign wealth funds is backing the Indian company’s energy expansion plans.
- Goldman Greater China chairman reportedly eyes PE
Fred Hu, who joined Goldman Sachs as chief economist for China in 1997, is retiring from the bank and will reportedly launch his own private equity fund.
- Sequoia joins Chinese VCs in SINA deal
The $180m financing will broaden the corporate governance of the Chinese online information giant.
- 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
- Temasek suffers annual losses, aims to reshape portfolio
The sovereign fund, whose portfolio recently recouped some of the value it had lost in the past fiscal year, has not made clear how its private equity investment strategy may shift.
- FountainVest to invest $100m in Chinese developer
FountainVest Partners, the private equity firm led by former Temasek Greater China head Frank Tang, is to invest $100m in convertible bonds and warrants issued by Henan province-focused developer Central China Real Estate.
- Temasek resumes CEO search
Differences over 'certain strategic issues that could not be resolved’ have caused former BHP Billiton chief Chip Goodyear and the sovereign fund to cancel plans for Goodyear to assume Temasek's CEO role.
- Goldman loses Asia special situations co-head
Kevin Zhang will end his 15 year-career with the bank, reportedly to join a China-focused private equity fund.
- FountainVest raises $1bn China-focused fund
The Chinese private equity firm was set up last year by former senior executives at Singapore's Temasek, which is an anchor investor in the fund.