Financials
Lone Star KEB stake sale resumes
Lone Star Funds' sometimes controversial investee Korea Exchange Bank has stated that the investor's long-delayed trade sale exit from its 51% stake is about to resume.
North Asia |
10 Mar 2010 | 
Taiwan regulator confirms Nan Shan sale terms
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission has confirmed its five conditions for allowing the prospective buyers of Nan Shan Life Insurance, including Primus Financial Holdings, to acquire the local insurance major from American International Group.
Financials |
10 Mar 2010 |
Intel to buy Fidelity's India MCX stake
Intel Capital is reportedly going to acquire 2% of the stake in India's Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) held by Fidelity International.
South Asia |
08 Mar 2010 |
Shinsei and Aozora may resume merger talks
Private equity investees Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank’s merger plan, previously reported cancelled, now apparently will come up for negotiation again, according to Japanese media reports.
Portfolio management |
05 Mar 2010 |
Fresh Coffee Day funding reports continue
Indian media are continuing to report that VG Siddhartha-backed holding group Coffee Day Holdings is about to receive funding of around $75 million, purportedly from Standard Chartered Private Equity Ltd. (SCPEL), with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and...
South Asia |
05 Mar 2010 |
Mystery buyer for Morgan Stanley CICC stake
China International Capital Corp. (CICC) chairman Li Jiange said publicly that his bank's longterm investor Morgan Stanley had finally fixed a buyer for its 34.3% CICC stake - but he declined to say who.
Greater China |
04 Mar 2010 |
Temasek, Li Ka-shing, back SecondMarket Inc.
Singapore SWF Temasek Holdings and the Li Ka-shing Foundation, backed by Hong Kong business leader Li Ka-shing, have jointly invested $15 million in a Series B round for SecondMarket Inc., an operator of an online marketplace and trading service for illiquid...
Southeast Asia |
03 Mar 2010 |
SWFs in AIA Pru-ve power shift
A deal hailed as a once-in-a-lifetime event looks about to put headline numbers against international appetite for Asian growth.
Southeast Asia | 03 Mar 2010
Leopard makes financial services investment
In a co-investment with two other foreign investors, Leopard Cambodia has taken a shared 7.72% stake in ASA, a 19% shareholder of ACLEDA, one of the leading retail banks in Cambodia.
Southeast Asia |
02 Mar 2010 |
AIG Nan Shan deal still in the dark
Taiwan’s foreign investment regulator reportedly is still facing discussions in parliament over the now-controversial $2.2 billion sale by American Insurance Group (AIG) of its local Nan Shan Insurance subsidiary to China Strategic and Primus Finan...
Greater China |
24 Feb 2010 |
EON Capital rejects HLB offer
Primus Pacific investee EON Capital Bhd has rejected a MYR4.92 billion ($1.4 billion) takeover offer from Hong Leong Bank, run by Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan.
Southeast Asia |
23 Feb 2010 |
Morgan Stanley on track for KKR/TPG CICC exit
US private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and TPG Capital have emerged as the final bidders in the auction to take the 34.3% stake in China International Capital Corp (CICC), the nation’s largest investment bank, from Morgan Stanley...
Greater China |
23 Feb 2010 |
SBI Holdings takes majority stake in Searchina
SBI Holdings Inc, the Japanese financial group involved in private equity and VC investment, has acquired a 75.7% stake in Searchina Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based provider of Chinese financial markets-related information services, for an undisclosed sum.
Buyouts |
17 Feb 2010 |
Primus's EON Capital rejects HLB offer
Primus Pacific Malaysian investee EON Capital Bhd has rejected a MYR4.92 billion ($1.4 billion) takeover offer from Hong Leong Bank, run by Malaysian billionaire Quek Leng Chan.
Southeast Asia |
12 Feb 2010 |
Helion, Bessemer bet on NetAmbit
India-focused venture fund Helion Venture Partners has announced it will inject INR400 million ($8.6 million) into financial products distributor NetAmbit, a market leader in the space on the sub-continent.
Early stage |
11 Feb 2010 |
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