Private Equity
Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm, has picked Hong Kong to make its foray into Asia as China is where the firm’s private equity clients are most active.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Standard Chartered Private Equity has acquired a minority stake in Singapore-listed Wilmar Holdings, a large palm oil business group with operations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Kirkland & Ellis, a law firm, has picked Hong Kong to make its foray into Asia as China is where the firm’s private equity clients are most active.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Ripplewood Holdings, a US private equity firm, and Videoncon Industries, an Indian strategic partner, have won the race to acquire Korea’s Daewoo Electronics in a transaction worth a reported $700 million.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
CVC Asia Pacific has reportedly paid $100m in the management buyout of Chinese flooring products company Plantation Timber Products.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
Eliokem, a Paris-based manufacturer of niche specialty chemicals, will be exited to AXA Private Equity.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Two private equity firms have been shortlisted from an original list of six that included Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Goldman Sachs to compete for the acquisition of China Networks Systems, a Taiwanese cable TV operator.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The bid by Apollo Management and Texas Pacific for the Las Vegas-based casino giant could mark one of the year’s largest buyouts.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Baring Private Equity Asia has raised $490 million in a new Asia-focused fund that will be seeking opportunities in Japan for the first time, founding partner and chief executive officer, Jean Eric Salata tells PEO.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Benjamin Fanger and Xiaolin Zhang met as MBA students at the University of Chicago. They’re now scouring the NPL portfolios of China for value investments. By Aaron Lovell.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
