Private Equity
Bear Stearns and Chinese investment firm CITIC will each acquire a 6 percent stake in one another, as well as pool resources and jointly develop private equity and venture capital products for the Asian market.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The middle market vehicle easily passed its $2.5 billion target, and more than triples Jordan’s capital under management.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
KPS Capital Partners will pay $400 million for the metals business of Olin Corporation. The deal is KPS’ first from its latest distressed fund, which closed on $1.2 billion in June.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Longreach Group is launching a ¥17.4 billion ($152 million) bid for Cybird Holdings in a move that would lead to the delisting of the Japanese mobile content provider from Jasdaq.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Former H&Q Asia Pacific managing director Andrew Kuo has joined The Blackstone Group’s growing Hong Kong staff as a managing director for greater China.
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
As established private equity markets slow in the wake of the credit crunch, global firms are looking further afield and local emerging market managers know this is no flash in the pan, Nicholas Lockley writes.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tano Capital, a US private equity firm which focuses on China and India, is forming a joint venture with Darby Overseas Investments and Tianjin Port Tariff-Free Zone Investments, a local government-linked.
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
Olympus Capital Holdings Asia has invested $28 million in a joint venture established with China-listed cement producer Sichuan Golden Summit.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
