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Carlyle invests $20m in Chinese women’s fashion houseThe investment will be used to drive Ellassay’s growth in China and to ‘gain recognition in international markets’.
- Carlyle rewards team
The global private equity firm has has also promoted 24 employees, the most senior of which are Asian private equity and real estate exeuctives. The promotions follow significant job cuts and office closures the firm announced in December.
- Private equity gets star role in $1trn US bank bail-out
Private funds and investors are essential to the US Treasury’s plan to rejuvenate credit markets with the purchase of banks’ toxic assets.
- Bidding for Satyam intensifies
The troubled Indian IT services giant has received ‘adequate response’ from bidders, which reportedly include Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR.
- China blocks $2.4bn Coke bid for Hui Yuan Juice
China’s Ministry of Commerce has rejected the takeover of China Hui Yuan Juice, one of China's leading beverage companies, six months after Coca-Cola first made an offer. US private equity firm Warburg Pincus owns a minority stake in the company.
- Former BCE chief to lead Caisse de dépôt
Michael Sabia, the ex-CEO of BCE who worked on the failed take-private of the Canada telecoms company, has been appointed president of the C$120bn Canadian pension.
- Riverstone recruits former Goldman partner
The energy-focused private equity firm has hired former US diplomat and Goldman Sachs executive Peter Coneway as it seeks $6bn for its latest joint fund with Carlyle.
- Swedish Apax office to become independent
Apax Partners is downgrading its resources in Sweden as part of its efforts to ‘rebalance’ its existing resources.
- UK buyout industry faces £4.3bn in debt refinancing
As loans taken out during the market’s boom cycle come due, the UK buyout market faces a challenge as ‘any company that fails to approach its lender from a position of strength may leave with a bloody nose’, according to law firm Trowers & Hamlins.
- Carlyle nets $234m from Maneely break-up
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel will pay the buyout firm less than half the maximum possible damages for withdrawing from the $3.53bn acquisition of John Maneely, a deal struck last August.