Private Equity
The emerging markets-focused private equity firm has promoted Sanjiv Aggarwal, who heads Actis' South Asian Infrastructure business, to partner.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The $27.4bn endowment will keep eyeing secondaries sales and acquisitions, after reporting a 2.7% real estate loss in the past year. Real estate, though, would be one of the 'most interesting' opportunities over the next few years.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Harvard University is reportedly in advanced talks to sell underlying investments in around six US-focused real estate funds to China sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Henry Chen and Alex Emery have been promoted to spearhead Permira's Asian expansion. In addition, Yuji Kato has taken over Emery’s role of head of the Tokyo office.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Limited partners are planning big increases in their exposure to Asian private equity, a preference primarily dictated by the continued attractiveness of China and India.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
General Electric will buy Lineage Power, whose business lines include power conversion systems for cloud computing, in a deal valued at $520m.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Though it could potentially allow LPs access to China’s domestic private equity industry, LPs want to see the final details before celebrating.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
Offshore LPs are giving a lukewarm reception to Shanghai’s Qualified Foreign LP programme until it is finalised.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The $750bn financial services company is seeding a China-focused private equity vehicle with Asian private investment house Fosun Group, which last year partnered with Carlyle on an RMB fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The measures leave many of the questions around foreign LP investment into RMB funds unanswered, but contain good news for foreign GPs managing RMB funds.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
