Private Equity

East Asia

Lehman’s $3.2bn fund needs sponsor

Executives at the private equity real estate group are searching for a new sponsor for the firm’s latest opportunity fund, which closed on $3.2bn days before the investment bank collapsed. The stake is worth a reportedly $780m.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Morgan Stanley to acquire additional 5.1% voting share in Taiwan bank

The investment in Chinatrust will be made through the US bank’s Asian private equity arm and its other subsidiaries.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

LaSalle to target distress in Asia

The private equity real estate arm of Jones Lang LaSalle is reportedly eyeing property bargains in Japan, China and Australia, after raising $3bn for its latest fund. People familiar with the matter told PERE, the fund has 80% capital left to invest.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

Northern Light appoints venture partner

Zhi Tan joins the China-focused venture firm's Beijing office from Chinese digital media company Focus Media, where he was a chief executive and director.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

CIC builds team

China’s $200bn sovereign wealth fund is hiring globally for 33 positions across 13 departments, some of which were just created in April.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Lehman Brothers’ $1.26bn Asian real estate portfolio attracts early interest

More than 250 expressions of interest from parties including private equity real estate firms have been received by the collapsed bank’s liquidators for its assts in Asia.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Korean pension to up overseas exposure to alternatives

South Korea’s National Pension Service will reportedly resume its overseas investments from next month and increase its investments in overseas alternative assets.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Gordon Clancy leaves CVCI

The head of Citi Venture Capital International's Greater China and Asia Pacific business has retired.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

Sequoia opens third Indian office

Sequoia Capital has opened a new office in Delhi, its third in India. The firm’s other Indian offices are located in Bangalore and Mumbai.

1 min read · 05 January 2013

KKR completes Chinese dairy farming investment

The global buyout firm has completed 'a series of investments' reportedly worth $150m in Ma Anshan Modern Farming. Last year the firm said it had invested nearly $100m for a minority stake in the growing Chinese dairy.

2 min read · 05 January 2013

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