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3i picks up Mizuho Investment for Europe debt

3i Group has acquired a unit of Japan's Mizuho Corporate Bank, Mizuho Investment Management (UK), which specializes in European debt, for some GBP18.3 million ($28.68 million).

  • Europe
  • 27 September 2010
3i plans RMB fund under Queen's blueprint

UK private equity major 3i Group is planning to launch a renminbi-denominated fund as part of an overall two-year plan, announced 3i CEO Michael Queen, coming alongside the second Indian infrastructure fund expected since March this year.

  • Europe
  • 27 September 2010
Tokio Marine plans mid-cap buyout fund for Japan

Tokio Marine Holdings, one of Japan's leading insurance companies, is targeting to raise a JPY50 billion ($590 million) buyout fund, its fourth, through its Tokio Marine Capital unit, to invest in mid-cap Japanese companies.

  • North Asia
  • 24 September 2010
Bahrain's Al Baraka may seek Malaysian, Indonesian banks

Bahrain's foremost publicly traded Islamic bank, Al Baraka Banking Group, may be seeking to spend up to $200 million on buying banks in Malaysia and Indonesia, according to the bank's CEO.

  • MENA
  • 24 September 2010
Blue Sky engages Bain's Shand as associate director

Australia's Blue Sky Private Equity, the SME- and mid-cap-focused direct investment arm of Brisbane's BlueSky Funds Management, has recruited Robert Shand, formerly a consultant with Bain & Co., as an associate director.

  • Australasia
  • 24 September 2010
Achuthan forms Achuthan & Co. for India, Southeast Asia investment

Hari Achuthan, previously a director with the private equity group at Credit Suisse Asset Management, is forming a private equity firm, Achuthan & Co., to invest in India and Southeast Asia.

  • South Asia
  • 24 September 2010
TutorVista taps ICICI, NEA, Temasek, others in $50 million round

Indian educational platform TutorVista Global has attracted interest from firms including Baring Private Equity Asia, ICICI Venture, New Enterprise Associates and Singapore's GIC and Temasek Holdings, as well as existing investors such as Lightspeed Ventures...

  • South Asia
  • 24 September 2010
Partners Group finances Newcastle Coal in Australia

Partners Group, the Zug-headquartered Swiss private markets investment management group, has financed the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group in Australia with an A$27 million ($25 million) subordinated debt facility, to build a new coal export terminal...

  • Australasia
  • 24 September 2010
Metmin plans exit as Tecpro goes IPO

Indian private equity investor Metmin Investments is planning a partial exit on a five-year investment in Tecpro Systems Ltd., the Indian bulk solids handling company also invested by Avigo Capital, Credit Suisse, Kotak Mahindra Capital and the Macquarie...

  • South Asia
  • 22 September 2010
Helix backs Hi-Rel Electronics MBO in India

Helix Investments is injecting $11 million into India's Hi-Rel Electronics Pvt. Ltd. to back a management buyout of the Ahmedabad-based industrial automation, power supply and power control company.

  • South Asia
  • 22 September 2010
HSBC PE Asia spins out to management

HSBC has followed through on its plan, first discussed internally in June this year, to spin out its private equity divisions, at least in Asia, with the sale by HSBC Holdings of 80.1% of HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Ltd. to Foci Holdings, an SPV backed...

  • Greater China
  • 21 September 2010
Indonesia Case Study: Astra International
Indonesia Case Study: Astra International

Astra International today is a $25 billion diversified conglomerate, and the star performer of the Indonesia Stock Exchange.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 21 September 2010
Country Risk Check: Indonesia

With GPs and LPs gung-ho for Indonesia while memories of post-1997 chaos there still linger, the market needs a risk check to assess the actual degrees of uncertainty in the country: whether dangers of another Asian financial crisis-style national collapse,...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 21 September 2010
Banks far down the spinout trail?

HSBC Private Equity Asia's spinout comes as no surprise.

  • Greater China
  • 21 September 2010
Affinity, TPG investee UTAC seeks to relist in Singapore

Affinity Equity Partners and TPG Capital investee United Test and Assembly Center (UTAC) is seeking to relist in Singapore in an IPO likely to raise up to $600 million, three years after its 2007 privatization, according to reports.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 September 2010
Alinta investors still in talks

TPG Capital – both its TPG Opportunities Partners debt unit and its private equity funds – Oaktree Capital, and Anchorage Advisers are still in talks with Bain Capital affiliate Sankaty Advisors and other debt holders about distressed Australian power...

  • Australasia
  • 20 September 2010
ANZ/KEB due diligence ongoing

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) is continuing its due diligence for the potential purchase of a 57.27% stake in Lone Star Funds investee Korea Exchange Bank.

  • Australasia
  • 20 September 2010
HSBC sells HSBC Private Equity Asia unit to management

HSBC Holdings has announced the sale of 80.1% of HSBC Private Equity (Asia) Ltd. to the management team of HSBC Private Equity, for a price tag of around $18.8 million, executing a spinout plan first reported in June.

  • Greater China
  • 20 September 2010
Navis completes exit from Linatex

Navis Capital Partners has completed its exit from investee Linatex to the UK's Weir Group, for $200 million, following a regulatory approval from South Africa's Competition Commission.

  • Industrials
  • 17 September 2010
Bain's Sankaty opposes TPG-led Alinta rescue in Australia

Sankaty Advisors, the special situations/credit affiliate of Bain Capital, is opposing the bailout plan led by TPG Capital's TPG Opportunities Partners unit, with Oaktree Capital and Anchorage Advisers, for struggling Australian power producer Alinta...

  • Australasia
  • 17 September 2010
Northstar sells stake in Sumber Alfaria in Indonesia

Indonesian private equity firm Northstar Pacific Partners has sold a 28.52% stake in local-listed retail business PT Sumber Alfaria to a consortium of five foreign buyers, receiving INR448.46 billion ($50 million) or almost a 203% return on its investment....

  • Southeast Asia
  • 16 September 2010
StepStone opens Beijing office, recruits Su for Managing Director role

Leading customized portfolio management and fund of funds firm StepStone Group has appointed Weichou Su, formerly an MD with China-focused investment banking and private equity firm the Hina Group, as Managing Director for its new Beijing office, which...

  • Greater China
  • 16 September 2010
Taisho, others assessing Actis, Sequoia India investee Paras Pharma

Japanese pharma major Taisho Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., as well as at least one other leading non-Indian drug firm, is conducting due diligence on Actis Capital and Sequoia Capital investee Paras Pharmaceuticals, in a competitive exit process that could...

  • South Asia
  • 16 September 2010
Archer, Ironbridge may join WSN Environmental auction

Australian private equity firms Archer Capital and Ironbridge Capital may participate in the upcoming auction of WSN Environmental Solutions, the state-owned company providing recycling and environmental services in the Greater Sydney area.

  • Australasia
  • 15 September 2010
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