Private Equity
The private equity arm of Singapore's DBS Bank is also opening an office in Shanghai to expand its investment activities in China.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The US buyout firm is reportedly closing its office in Hong Kong. Its plans for its Taipei and Beijing offices remain unclear.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
As an economy and as a private equity market, Australia could do little wrong. How will the country’s GPs cope with the rude intervention of global recession? asks Andy Thomson
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The Singapore sovereign wealth fund has established an office in the southern city of Chennai to expand its investment operations in India.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Florida-headquartered Sun Capital Partners has disbanded its Tokyo office making 8 redundancies following a decision to move away from platform opportunities in Asia. The company will retain its one Japanese portfolio company, gelatine dessert maker Tarami.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The semiconductor giant's corporate VC arm will fund Enjoyor's R&D in traffic intelligence and digital healthcare technologies. Its software services group has also signed a three-year business collaboration agreement with Chinese company.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Dominique Senequier, CEO of AXA Private Equity, listed ageing infrastructure, regulation and new services among the drivers of infrastructure investment needs in OECD countries. Asian economies also face steep financing needs but offer more attractive returns.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Former Kleiner Perkins China partner Ian Goh has followed David Su to Matrix's China affiliate. Su and Goh worked together both at Kleiner Perkins China and TDF Capital. Matrix is investing its first China fund, which closed on $275m in January 2008.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Kevin Wang, a China-focused GP at the Asian Natixis affiliate, will leave to launch his own firm. NPEA, meanwhile, aims to increase its Chinese private equity activities and will open a Beijing office this year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Valuation difficulties have prompted the Texas-based mega-firm to cease talks that began more than a year ago with the Kuwait Investment Authority and two California pensions over the potential sale of a single digit stake in its management company.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
