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Japanese strategic buyer sues PEP and UnitasJapan's Asahi Breweries is alleging it overpaid for Independent Liquor, which it bought from the private equity duo in 2011 for NZ$1.53bn.
- Privately Speaking: Tim Sims of Pacific Equity Partners
Pacific Equity Partners introduced the buyout in Australia over a decade ago and has consistently raised the country’s largest funds. As it prepares to raise Fund V in a difficult climate, co-founder and managing director Tim Sims tells Drew Wilson that PEP still has an edge over its local and international rivals
- Unitas exits Australian auto company
Unitas has completed a trade sale exit of an Australian automotive parts business to a US-based company for an estimated total of $950 million over two deals.
- Citi poaches PE specialist from UBS
Investment banker Aidan Allen will join Citigroup in Australia later this year, having worked on numerous high-profile private equity deals there during his career.
- Chinese insurance LPs eye Australian PE
After regulatory changes allowing Chinese insurance companies to invest in offshore private equity, many have been looking to Australia to deploy their vast capital resources.
- Tax issues raised in Australia PE case
Tax documentation covering Archer Capital's 2011 secondary sale of MYOB has been requested in an ongoing legal dispute between Archer and Sage Group.
- Report: PEP launching A$3.5bn fund
Australia's Pacific Equity Partners intends to launch one of the country's largest funds in recent years despite the weak fundraising climate.
- Insight 2013: Fundraising in Asia
LP appetite will continue its shift toward more sector-specific offerings, according to Javad Movsoumov, executive director of UBS private funds group in Singapore.
- PEP, Unitas toast $1.3bn liquor exit
The Australasian firms will sell Independent Liquor to Japan's Asahi Group - another example of Japanese firms expanding via cross-border M&A.
- Buyout pair postpones Edwards IPO
Two private equity firms have halted plans to float vacuum equipment maker Edwards on the London Stock Exchange.