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CDC may resume direct investment strategy

UK development investor CDC has confirmed to AVCJ that it may resume direct investment and co-investment strategies alongside its current private equity fund of funds approaches, following comments by UK Secretary of State for International Development...

  • Europe
  • 08 November 2010
Ong leaves SEASAF for CIMB Investment Bank

Adrian Ong, most recently Head of the Islamic Infrastructure Fund for the advisor of the CIMB Group/Standard Bank JV, the South East Asian Strategic Assets Fund (SEASAF), has left the firm and joined CIMB Investment Bank as Head of Regional Mergers and...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 08 November 2010
Entropy closes first cleantech fund

Entropy Ventures, a Hong Kong-headquartered cleantech investment firm, has closed its first fund, the Amadeus Asian Clean Energy Fund, at $56.8 million, the firm confirmed to AVCJ.

  • Cleantech
  • 05 November 2010
Bellevue latest buy for Lazard Carnegie Wylie Oz pub fund

The Bellevue Hotel, a landmark old-style pub in Sydney's Paddington eastern suburb, in business since the 1880s, has become the latest investment for the A$100 million ($91 million) Lazard Carnegie Wylie Private Equity Distressed Fund, according to Australian...

  • Australasia
  • 05 November 2010
Australia's Ten Network chairman to step down after abortive Hellman & Friedman MBO: reports

Nick Falloon, the executive chairman of Australia's Ten Network, has offered to step down following a share raid by James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch that secured 18% of the company in the wake of a rumored privatization plan by Falloon and US PE firm...

  • Australasia
  • 05 November 2010
KKR says China Growth Fund on course for $1 billion hard cap

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) has announced a $700 million first close on its KKR China Growth Fund to date, and is on track to close at its $1 billion hard cap, the firm revealed in the course of its latest 3Q10 earnings call.

  • Fundraising
  • 04 November 2010
Helion, Accel invest $2.8 million in Indian fashion site Exclusively.In

Accel Partners India and Helion Venture Partners have jointly invested $2.8 million into Indian membership-only fashion, jewelry, home decor and travel web destination Exclusively.In, in the company's first institutional and angel round of funding, according...

  • South Asia
  • 04 November 2010
Hopu principals retiring, diverging: reports

Despite the firm's earlier denials to AVCJ, Hopu Investment Management may in fact be in the process of spinning out its present investments and looks to be on track to dissolve its current vehicle as founders Fang Fenglei and Richard Ong pursue separate...

  • Funds
  • 03 November 2010
Mezzanine Q&A: Joseph W. Ferrigno III

The Managing Partner at AMCG Investors talks about mezzanine after the crisis, new opportunities for deal flow, and why LPs should be looking to the asset class as a means of diversification.

  • People
  • 03 November 2010
Returns, the second time around
Returns, the second time around

With the global private equity debate still dominated by the $400 billion+ overhang of capital seeking a home, some 10% of it in Asia Pacific, expectations have been building of a new spate of secondary buyout deals that would put more of this capital...

  • Performance
  • 03 November 2010
Asian funds: arithmetic or geometry?
Asian funds: arithmetic or geometry?

Private equity has been forced to deal with rising levels of skepticism and caution post the GFC, with much of it reserved for leading industry brand names – generally the major buyout vehicles.

  • Performance
  • 03 November 2010
Tectonic shift toward Asia Pacific?

It's that time again: another year for Asia Pacific private equity brings round another fixture in the region’s industry calendar – the AVCJ Asia Pacific Private Equity & Venture Forum.

  • Performance
  • 03 November 2010
Mandhana appointed as IDFC PE Managing Partner

IDFC has announced the appointment of Satish Mandhana, formerly Managing Director with IDFC Private Equity, as Managing Partner and head of the firm, succeeding Luis Miranda, who will now step down to be non-executive chairman of IDFC PE.

  • South Asia
  • 02 November 2010
CVC appoints Chan as senior advisor on financial institutions

CVC Capital Partners has announced the appointment of Ignatius Chan Tze Ching, formerly Head of Corporate and Investment Banking and Senior Country Corporate Officer for Greater China at Citigroup and Deputy CEO with Bank of China in Hong Kong, as a Senior...

  • Greater China
  • 02 November 2010
Infinity invests in Harbin tools manufacturer

Infinity Group, the Israel-originated PRC-focused investment group, has announced an investment of RMB120 million ($18 million) in Harbin No.1 Tools Manufacturing Co. Ltd., a state-owned company which, according to the firm, is a major research and production...

  • Greater China
  • 02 November 2010
Intel Capital invests China digital surveillance withNetPosa

The Intel Capital China Technology Fund II is to invest Beijing's NetPosa Technologies, a Chinese provider of digital surveillance systems, for an undisclosed sum, as part of a strategic cooperation agreement with Intel Corp. that involves the company...

  • Greater China
  • 02 November 2010
DE Shaw's Gaudio to move to Hong Kong

DE Shaw has announced that Julius Gaudio, one of its executive committee and joint supervisor of its asset management division, will relocate to its Hong Kong office, becoming the firm's first executive committee member to be based in Asia.

  • Greater China
  • 02 November 2010
Paine & Partners may be in frame for PEP's Tegel

US PE firm Paine & Partners may be the latest suitor for Pacific Equity Partners' New Zealand poultry investee Tegel Foods, in a potential secondary buyout that could fetch up to NZ$1 billion ($755 million), according to reports.

  • Australasia
  • 01 November 2010
Permira retains ex-Nokia Ho as Senior Advisor

Permira has announced the appointment of David Ho, former President of Nokia in China, as a Senior Adviser with the firm, charged with aiding the firm in identifying investment opportunities in Greater China.

  • People
  • 01 November 2010
New Robeco cleantech f-o-f seeks emerging Asia propositions

Dutch asset management firm Robeco Group has said that it is seeking to target opportunities in China and India, plus other Asian markets, for its Robeco SAM Clean Tech Private Equity III fund of funds, which continues to aim at a $500 million closing...

  • Europe
  • 29 October 2010
HarbourVest moves Flower to Hong Kong to support secondaries

HarbourVest Partners has relocated Tim Flower, a Vice President based with the firm's London office since 2008, to Hong Kong to head up its new push for secondaries investments around Asia Pacific.

  • Greater China
  • 29 October 2010
Macquarie retrenches infrastructure vehicles

Macquarie Group has made a broad pullback in the infrastructure fund sector that has been long associated with the Australian investment bank. Changes include offering investors a fee discount; sacking 60 of its infrastructure staff, around 10% of the...

  • Australasia
  • 27 October 2010
European Union agrees private equity/hedge fund legislation

The European Parliament and European Union member states have finally agreed upon new EU regulations for private equity firms and hedge funds operating inside the EU.

  • Regulation
  • 27 October 2010
Foster's still open to private equity offers for wine unit

David Crawford, Chairman of Australia's Foster's Group, publicly said the company will still entertain offers from private equity groups for its wine business, while repeating that a c.$2.46 billion offer, reportedly from Cerberus Capital Management,...

  • Australasia
  • 26 October 2010
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