Private Equity
Hong Kong-listed GOME has suspended trading of its shares after chairman Wong Kwong Yu was reportedly detained on allegations of stock price manipulation.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Shares in the publicly listed firm continued to drop amid dismal third quarter reports, but one analyst sees a bright future ahead for Blackstone. Fortress Investment Group shares reached their 52-week low at $2.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund cited current market conditions as the reason for delaying the sale of the power generating company PowerSeraya.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
Shenzhen-based Easou has raised a Series C funding round from private equity firms including AXA and iD TechVentures.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The global financial services firm is considering funds focused on Latin America, China and India as follow-ons to its debut private equity fund targeting the Middle East and North Africa, launched this week. The private equity division is an extension of UBS' infrastructure group.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The fund of funds and co-investment firm, which will focus on the US lower middle market and emerging markets like India and China, is targeting $300m for its debut fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK-based private equity fund is selling its stake in Boxer TV-Access AB to Teracom, a media company owned by the government of Sweden.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The UK buyout firm will exit its majority stake in acrylics-company Lucite after nearly a decade.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
A panel of private equity insiders, including DLJ Merchant Banking chair Nicole Arnaboldi and Carlyle's Jonathan Colby, agreed the buyout industry is in for more pain but sees US deal activity regaining momentum sometime next year.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Chinese private equity firm was set up last year by former senior executives at Singapore's Temasek, which is an anchor investor in the fund.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
