Private Equity

Asia-Pacific

M1 Capital acquires two drilling equipment firms

The firm is structuring the financing for the acquisition of two oil and gas drilling equipment companies in the US for $82m, and has agreed to acquire another in China.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Global Environment Fund recruits ex-Carlyle partner

The former head of Carlyle’s North American industrial buyouts group, Jay Powell, will apply his experience to the North American cleantech sector; GEF’s Clean Technology Fund II is targeting $350m.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Study: Sovereign funds to increase co-investments

Respondents to a recent survey also said sovereign funds’ long-term strategy makes them more appealing than other LPs.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Arcapita channels $2bn to China wind farms

The Bahrain-based investment firm is betting on China’s alternative energy sector through a joint venture with India’s Tanti Group. The deal is Arcapita’s first in China.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

Cisco anchors $60m Russian venture fund

The hardware, software and technology services giant and Russia-focussed investment firm UFG Asset Management have funded the launch of Almaz Capital.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

DLJ buys education travel company for £100m

Bowmark Capital has made four times its money from a consolidation play in the UK educational travel market. DLJ plans to take advantage of trends driving the market to outsourced travel providers.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Report: Chinese securities firms to launch private equity operations

In what is the latest in a series of reforms in China's private equity sector, regulatory authorities seem set to allow securities houses to start private equity operations.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Consortium launches $320m Asian water fund

Konzen Group, a Singaporean water firm, and AmInvestment Bank, a Malaysian bank, have launched a private equity fund to invest in water treatment and waste water management throughout China and Southeast Asia.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Chinese city to launch two PE funds

Hangzhou, a picturesque historical city near Shanghai, is reportedly looking to raise RMB5 billion and RMB560 million for an industrial fund and a venture capital fund respectively.

2 min read · 04 January 2013

Goldman, Chinese firms to pay €271m for CIFA in secondary sale

Italian private equity firm Magenti will sell the concrete equipment firm to a consortium comprised of Shenzhen-listed construction equipment company Zoomlion, Goldman Sachs, Hony Capital and Mandarin Capital Partners.

1 min read · 04 January 2013

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