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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan posts 14.3% rate of return

Canada’s largest single profession pension plan, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), announced that it had earned its largest value-add dollar amount ever in 2010, claiming C$13.3 billion ($13.9 billion) in investment income by the year’s end, representing...

  • North America
  • 08 April 2011
PRC drug company Ascletis raises $100 million

Newly launched Chinese pharmaceutical company Ascletis Inc. – which aims to license high-potential drug products from Western companies and develop them into medicines for China’s fast- growing market – has raised $100 million in private funding tranche...

  • Greater China
  • 08 April 2011
Qihoo shares break out big in NYSE IPO

The share price of Qihoo 360, China’s market-leading provider of internet and mobile security products, and third most popular company in the space by customer volume, more than doubled its already premium-plus $13.50-14.50 per ADS initial offering to...

  • Greater China
  • 01 April 2011
GIC opens new office in Mumbai

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) announced its intent to open an India office in Mumbai March 31, its eighth overseas.

  • South Asia
  • 01 April 2011
Apollo Global Management IPO flip-flops

Apollo Global Management LLC (APO) has raised $565 million on its recent IPO, selling 29.76 million shares, or 3.6 million more than it had expected. However, while the shares initially traded at top end of their $17-19 price range, Apollo’s performance...

  • GPs
  • 31 March 2011
India's VIA to take flight on $100 million fund raising

Bangalore-based travel services provider VIA moves even faster than its clientele, it would appear. Founded in 2006, the company boasts annual revenues of $500 million, and growth in the 60% p.a. range. And it has just announced it will raise up to $100...

  • South Asia
  • 31 March 2011
Buy, buy, buy
Buy, buy, buy

While official data out of the PRC varies, most market observers report increasing M&A activity in all segments of the market. Consensus is this will continue for the foreseeable future, and that private equity will want to be more involved

  • Greater China
  • 23 March 2011
China's PE boom
China's PE boom

With M&A activity in China up an impressive 66% year-on-year in 2010, AVCJ drills down deeper to the drivers behind the deals, who’s buying what, and what it means for private equity

  • Greater China
  • 16 March 2011
Carlyle takes 15% stake in Qube Logistics

Qube Logistics has announced that it has reached an agreement with Carlyle Infrastructure Partners (CIP), a unit of the international private equity giant Carlyle Group, through which the fund will subscribe to up to 91,388,476 shares – or about 15%...

  • Australasia
  • 02 March 2011
Super funds and private equity
Super funds and private equity

Historically, Aussie superannuation funds have been fairly consistent in the way they manage private equity programs, which is also why talk about pulling back from the asset class is making waves.

  • Australasia
  • 23 February 2011
The heart of the RMB
The heart of the RMB

With so many offshore investors now scrambling to launch RMB funds, the issues around the liberalization of the Chinese currency – which the US government is trying hard, with limited success to effect – longer term convertibility must be addressed.

  • Renminbi fund
  • 16 February 2011
Miracle or mirage?
Miracle or mirage?

International strategic and SWF investment in the country is ramping up, though private equity’s engagement remains tentative. But some early movers say that is changing.

  • North Asia
  • 16 February 2011
ILPA polishes its private equity principles
ILPA polishes its private equity principles

New version incorporates more GP and LP input aimed at increasing focus, clarity and practicality on both sides of the private equity equation.

  • North America
  • 01 February 2011
Squalls on the horizon
Squalls on the horizon

With the rising rate of Chinese inflation no longer a state secret, the gravity of the problem is clear. But, will the government’s moves be strong enough to curb the problem?

  • Investments
  • 26 January 2011
The restructuring expert

The Chairman of distressed debt investment giant Oaktree Capital spoke with AVCJ about market challenges, his firm’s relationship to private equity, and where the next wave of opportunities lie.

  • Credit/Special Situations
  • 19 January 2011
Frontier markets investments showcase growth and opportunity

Recent activity out of Cambodia showcases the opportunities in frontier markets, in spite of the risks and uncertainties that these countries also present. In January, Leopard Capital, through its Leopard Cambodia Fund, took a 33.7% stake in Intean Poalroath...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 January 2011
CHAMP Private Equity acquires Constellation Brands' UK and Australian business

Leading world premium wine purveyor Constellation Brands Inc. announced just before Christmas that it had reached agreement with Sydney-based CHAMP Private Equity to sell its UK and Australian interests (Constellation Wines Australia & Europe – CWAE)...

  • Australasia
  • 05 January 2011
New horizons in Southeast Asia
New horizons in Southeast Asia

Private equity investment in Indonesia surged in 2010; but the reality of investment opportunity in places like Indonesia and Vietnam requires more than macro growth numbers

  • Southeast Asia
  • 15 December 2010
The cleantech sector: renewable?
The cleantech sector: renewable?

Since the COP15 debacle in Denmark nearly a year ago, it has been more or less all downhill for the clean/green sector that as recently as 2008 looked to be on the threshold of political and market breakthroughs – notably in carbon pricing – that most...

  • Cleantech
  • 01 December 2010
Quorumm Digital Venture Partners appoints Hasnain Zaheer senior partner for Australia

Third-generation VC Quorumm Digital Venture Partners – which has an investment war chest of some $500 million – has appointed experienced digital strategist and online marketing practitioner, analyst and trainer Hasnain Zaheer as senior partner of its...

  • Australasia
  • 29 November 2010
Indian private equity's characteristics
Indian private equity's characteristics

Even though the Indian economy is booming as never before, the private equity market is facing several barriers to entry.

  • South Asia
  • 24 November 2010
Chinese M&A lawyer Chow joins Davis Polk

Global law firm Davis Polk has announced that leading PRC and Hong Kong M&A lawyer Paul Chow will join the firm as a partner in their Hong Kong office.

  • People
  • 23 November 2010
Bery, JPMorgan reach amicable conclusion

JPMorgan and Varun Bery have jointly announced that they have reached an amicable resolution to their recent dispute, which will result in the latter providing private equity consultancy services to JPMorgan.

  • People
  • 23 November 2010
LPs back on course
LPs back on course

While private equity funding sources continue to diversify, traditional limited partners remain the sine qua non of how the asset class survives and thrives.

  • LPs
  • 16 November 2010
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