Private Equity
Pantheon Ventures, a private equity fund of funds specialist, has invested $12.5 million in a Chinese wood flooring manufacturer backed by The Carlyle Group.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Carlyle has teamed with US education provider Apollo Group to form Apollo Global, a $1 billion joint venture that will invest in the education services sector outside the US.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The global buyout group, whose name means "surprisingly different", has made its first investment in China taking a non-control stake in Galaxy, a casino operator, to fund an ambitious programme of property development and expansion.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Fundraisers with solid track record in Asia may no longer need to go to the US for an extensive roadshow if the recent support by two Canadian pension plans for newly established FountainVest was illustrative.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Global Emerging Markets Group has agreed to acquire a 49 percent stake in a coking coal reserve in Inner Mongolia. The deal is GEM’s second direct private equity investment in the country.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
3i has invested $30 million in John Hardy, a Hong Kong-based jewellery designer brand manufactured in Bali and sold in the US. The private equity investment will provide an exit for the founders of the family-run business.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The buyout firm will invest $250 million in Bharti Infatel, an Indian telecom company that has already received $1 billion from private equity and sovereign funds.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Pantheon Ventures and secondary investor Nova have bought the scientific laboratory business of Barloworld as it looks to grow the business overseas.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
CVC Asia Pacific added a $200 million mainland blind manufacturing business to its basket before closing the $750 million deal for shutter manufacturer Nien Made.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Dubai investment firm has become Istithmar World following a year in which the firm has made headlines, like its MENA peers, through its forays into the US and Europe.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
