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The GPs’ GP heads eastPartners Capital, the private investment office for private equity professionals, is opening an office in Hong Kong.
- Ex-HSBC and ex-CLSA execs team up
Vince Warner and Josephine Price have established Chepstow Capital, a private equity firm targeting Asia’s mid-market opportunities.
- 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
- Keytone raises $200m
The debut fund from the China-focused private equity firm will invest in the technology, clean-tech, media and consumer sectors.
- SPORTY, STYLISH AND EMISSIONS-FREE
Fisker Automotive raised $65m last month to fund a chic line of designer hybrid cars.
- Goh resurfaces at Matrix
Former Kleiner Perkins China partner Ian Goh has followed David Su to Matrix's China affiliate. Su and Goh worked together both at Kleiner Perkins China and TDF Capital. Matrix is investing its first China fund, which closed on $275m in January 2008.
- Centerbridge, Kleiner Perkins chiefs to advise Obama
Kleiner Perkins dealmaker John Doerr and Centerbridge co-founder Mark Gallogly are among 16 people who have been chosen to counsel the president on US economic recovery.
- Kleiner Perkins China partner resigns
Ian Goh has left the Silicon Valley firm's China affiliate, which was established in 2007. He was one of the team's first executives, joining alongside three former TDF Capital colleagues including Joe Zhou. Zhou resigned last year, reportedly to launch his own firm.
- Venture-backed Better Place launches $1bn electric car effort
Better Place, backed by Morgan Stanley and VantagePoint Venture Partners, will begin building charging ports and battery exchange stations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in 2010.
- Kleiner Perkins leads $75m cleantech investment
The investment in carbon emission efficiency tech company Silver Springs was made from the venture firm's greentech fund, which is raising $500m and has recently backed a number of hybrid vehicle projects.