Private Equity

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Apax in $1.2bn healthcare exit

The firm has clinched its second healthcare exit since August with the sale of Qualitest Pharmaceuticals to a strategic buyer.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

AXA on verge of €227.5m Eliokem exit

The private equity arm of the French insurance giant will make twice its original investment when the deal is finalised.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

StepStone hires MD, opens Beijing office

The private equity advisor has named Weichou Su a managing director in the firm’s Beijing office, which officially opened Tuesday.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Silver Lake Sumeru makes Latin American debut

The tech-focused middle market affiliate of Silver Lake Partners has purchased a minority interest in Brazilian computing company Locaweb.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Partners raises €650m war chest for direct investment

Zug-based Partners Group is building up its team to deploy its largest ever pool of direct investment capital.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Report: Bain, Permira among final bidders for Taiwan's CNS

The two firms have reportedly been invited, along with Macquarie Group, to bid in the final round for MBK Partners-backed cable and broadband operator China Network Systems.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Avoiding the hype

Successful cleantech investing means looking beyond ‘inspirational rhetoric’ and the ‘bubble mentality’ to later stage investment, argues Frog Capital’s Iyad Omari.

3 min read · 05 January 2013

Report: TPG sells remaining $1.2bn Ping An shares

The reported share sales give TPG a landmark return of roughly 16x on its original $150m investment in SDB.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Deadline for sale of AIG’s Taiwan unit extended

AIG and a consortium comprising Primus and China Strategic have agreed to extend the deadline for the completion of the sale of AIG’s Taiwan unit.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

China allows insurance firms to enter private equity

A temporary measure from the CIRC has lifted the restrictions on China’s insurance industry, allowing up to RMB226 billion in assets access to the local private equity industry for the first time.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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