Private Equity
The hedge-fund giant has kick-started its new US private equity platform with the announced privatisation of insurance company James River.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
IBM and Lehman Brothers are investing $17 million in a Hong Kong-listed Chinese software company from a fund the two companies established last year.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Baring Private Equity Asia has joined forces with the private sector arm of the World Bank to invest $47 million in a Chinese producer of environmentally-friendly refrigerants.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
China’s investment in Blackstone has intriguing implications for private equity as we know it. Philip Borel investigates
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Witnesses at a US House committee hearing agreed the booming private equity industry is not at fault for America’s growing divide between the haves- and have-nots. Opinions diverged, however, as to how best to address this phenomenon.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Tsinghua University’s opening of its private equity research institute in partnership with Kirkland & Ellis should open the door further for private equity to enter the region.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia has made two investments totalling about $100 million in China’s steel-related industry, a sector the firm had identified early last year when it was out of favour.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
In a startling development, a soon-to-be established state investment company of the People’s Republic of China will make a $3 billion investment in Blackstone as the alternative investment giant prepares to go public. Blackstone’s Schwarzman is calling the deal a ’paradigm shift in global capital flows’.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Steamboat Ventures, a venture capital firm affiliated with The Walt Disney Company, has invested $5 million in CTS Media, a provider of in-stream video advertising technology and services.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Chinese silicon manufacturer Shunda has raised $82 million in private equity financing – $40 million of which is from emerging markets private equity investor Actis.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
