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Indigo to partially exit Tiger Airways during IPOThe Singapore affiliate of US-based Indigo Partners stands to net up to S$16m from the $273m IPO of the Asian budget airline.
- China Pacific IPO reaps $3.1bn
The IPO implies a 6x paper return for second largest shareholder The Carlyle Group, which is subject to a one-year lock-up period and has no intentions to ‘rush for the door’.
- 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.
- Blackstone in $780m building materials deal
In its second US private equity deal this year, the mega-firm will back Summit Materials alongside Silverhawk Capital and former BHP Billiton CEO Charles ‘Chip’ Goodyear.
- 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 mulls co-investment platforms
The Singaporean sovereign wealth fund is considering joint investments with ‘sophisticated co-investors’ for the first time and may eventually do the same for retail investors.
- 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.
- Report: Temasek, Bank of China plan infrastructure fund
Temasek Holdings and state-owned Bank of China are in talks to establish a fund that will raise between $1bn and $2bn for investments in Chinese infrastructure.
- Report: Hopu takes stake in Chinese dairy
The reported co-investment in China Mengniu Dairy Company alongside China-backed COFCO marks the second private equity investment in a Chinese dairy firm in as many months.