Private Equity
The UK-based firm has agreed to sell ADB Solutions to PAI Partners in a deal understood to be between €200m and €250m.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Carlyle is leading its second take-private of a US-listed Chinese company, following a trend of privatisation deals involving Chinese companies listed overseas.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Founded more than 50 years ago, Taiwan-based China Development Industrial Bank has now launched a private equity arm, CDIB Capital International, which already has 14 investments based on a mainland China ‘corridor’ strategy. Paul Yang, president and chief executive of the Bank and founder and chairman of CDIB, explains their different approaches.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
TrimCo in 2005 was a small Hong Kong-based supplier of care-and-content labels to apparel brands that manufactured in Southern China. It was a 30-year-old, family-owned shop that had reached a plateau – just the kind of business that appeals to Navis Capital Partners, a small-cap buyout firm based in Malaysia.
5 min read · 21 September 2013
China’s institutional investors, which together have $3 trillion in reserves, are taking a slow and cautious approach to private equity real estate, delegates heard at the PERE Asia Summit in Hong Kong.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
China’s slowing GDP growth is squeezing retailers’ profit margins. But certain subsectors are handling the change better than others – and private equity is keen to take advantage.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The Hong Kong-based firm has rebranded itself as Adamas Asset Management in order to focus strictly on mezzanine lending in China.
2 min read · 21 September 2013
Alibaba’s tricky PE-led buyback of Yahoo! shares was China’s largest private deal ever – and the Chinese side delivered a stand-out performance before a global audience.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
The slowdown in Brazil’s economic growth – and a possible over-supply of capital – has led some to question whether the country is still a viable destination for private equity investment
7 min read · 21 September 2013
Eric Mason, head of the $10bn Church Pension Fund's Asia office, elaborates on the institution's investment strategy in Asia.
3 min read · 21 September 2013
