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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
Fund administration: the silver lining post GFC
Fund administration: the silver lining post GFC

It's interesting to note how far – and how deeply – GFC shockwaves reached into private equity practice, even at the shop-floor level, in fund management and administration.

  • Advisory
  • 03 November 2010
India's all-inclusive infrastructure rollout
India's all-inclusive infrastructure rollout

Huge infrastructure development schemes have been underway across most of Asia’s developing economies for some years now, especially in India and China.

  • South Asia
  • 03 November 2010
BHP end game for PotashCorp?

The tussle for control of Canadian fertilizer behemoth PotashCorp took another turn on October 14th, when news broke that premier Chinese chemicals SOE Sinochem Corp. had decided against a counteroffer to rival the $39 billion hostile bid by Australian-based...

  • North America
  • 20 October 2010
Australian private equity: Behind the numbers
Australian private equity: Behind the numbers

Judging by current data, one might think that Australian private equity has seen the best of times become the not-quite-so-good times.

  • Australasia
  • 12 October 2010
Inside India's infra riddle
Inside India's infra riddle

The Athletes' Village furor that erupted in Delhi on the eve of the Commonwealth Games has shone a strong spotlight on the reality of India’s landscape, and its problems delivering improvements in infrastructure.

  • South Asia
  • 05 October 2010
Sandstone, Sequoia, Madison take minority stake in Micromax

Subcontinent specialist Sandstone Capital and Silicon Valley VC icon Sequoia Capital, as well as media and communications-focused firm Madison India Capital, have taken a small position – collectively estimated at less than 10% - in Indian handset producer...

  • South Asia
  • 21 September 2010
Alinta's future hinges on private equity consortium deal

Australian power generation company Alinta Energy Group has been in talks with TPG Capital’s debt investment arm, TPG Opportunities Partners, to restructure the company, pending the outcome of an earlier proposal by the company for trade sales plus an...

  • Australasia
  • 14 September 2010
China M&A: Leaps and bounds

Chinese M&A activity isn’t just recovering post-GFC.

  • Greater China
  • 07 September 2010
Potash a hot commodity

When Canadian fertilizers mining leader PotashCorp formally rejected Australia-headquartered resources major BHP Billiton’s $130-per-share, $39 billion takeover bid last week, expectations were triggered that multiple higher bids would emerge from some...

  • Australasia
  • 01 September 2010
Funding Asian infrastructure: The ancillary factors
Funding Asian infrastructure: The ancillary factors

With infrastructure funds still evolving in terms of their structure, and more and more shifting focus to Asia, participants in the sector are reporting a shift from the original dividend yield story as the focal point to much more of a capital appreciation...

  • Infrastructure
  • 25 August 2010
New regulations in Europe: the perils of painting with a broad brush
New regulations in Europe: the perils of painting with a broad brush

While new alternative asset regulation in the US is more or less a done deal, the European attempt to accomplish the same remains stalled.

  • Regulation
  • 17 August 2010
CIC to fund Liverpool FC bid?

Despite China Investment Corporation’s (CIC) proclamation that it won’t be involved in the purchase of top-tier English Premier League’s Liverpool Football Club – and that it has never even heard of Kenny Huang, the Hong Kong sports businessman CIC is...

  • Greater China
  • 06 August 2010
New private equity regulation: industry crisis averted, or postponed?
New private equity regulation: industry crisis averted, or postponed?

For many months now, the private equity segment in the US – whose rules and norms still set the terms for industry practice in Asia Pacific as elsewhere – has been beset by creeping insecurity.

  • Regulation
  • 04 August 2010
Limited Partner Q&A: International Finance Corporation

AVCJ’s Brian McLeod talks to David Wilton, CIO of the Private Equity and Investment Funds Department at the International Finance Corporation, the private finance arm of the World Bank

  • People
  • 28 July 2010
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