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Tata Capital targets $1 billion in new PE capital

Tata Capital, the Tata Group’s financial services arm, has announced plans to raise approximately $1 billion from local and international sources next year for four sector-focused private equity funds.

  • Fundraising
  • 16 July 2010
Allied Medical talks complicate Healthscope situation

The $1.6 billion takeover bid for Australian private hospital and pathology operator Healthscope by a consortium of the Blackstone Group, the Carlyle Group, and TPG Capital, with a rival bid from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has been complicated by...

  • Healthcare
  • 15 July 2010
CCB backs PRC's first aviation fund

In partnership with China Aviation Industry Corp., China Construction Bank (CCB) has formally established the country’s first ever aviation-focused industry fund, the AVIC Fund of China.

  • Funds
  • 09 July 2010
NZ Super fuels SMEs via Waterman

Private equity firm Waterman Capital, which is raising a new NZ$75 million ($53 million) fund to invest in Kiwi small businesses with a NAV of between NZ$10-50 million ($7-35 million), has been buoyed by New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s plans to inject...

  • Fundraising
  • 08 July 2010
CIC-AES JV out of wind

PRC SWF the China Investment Corporation (CIC) has jointly announced with $14 billion Virginia-headquartered global power giant AES Corp. that their non-binding letter of intent for CIC to take a 35% stake in AES Wind Generation expired at the end of...

  • Cleantech
  • 08 July 2010
Asia Pacific distress still pays off

Given the financial journal headlines and relentless LP interest reinforcing the notion that Asia is booming, one might well wonder what distress opportunities remain in the region.

  • Credit/Special Situations
  • 06 July 2010
Carlyle to take 13.6% stake in China Fishery

Singapore-listed China Fishery Group – which began operations as a North Pacific trawling business in 2001 – has announced it will issue new ordinary shares and warrants in a conditional private placement to the Carlyle Group, for a total consideration...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 July 2010
DE Shaw looks at Ambani JV

Private equity and hedge fund group DE Shaw is on the point of forming an equal JV with billionaire Indian business leader Mukesh Ambani, according to Indian reports.

  • South Asia
  • 02 July 2010
Temasek's ITS to list in Hong Kong

Temasek Holdings will seek to increase its pre-IPO stake in PRC investee intelligent transportation system provider China ITS (Holdings) Co Ltd. which anticipates raising about $119 million via a Hong Kong IPO in July.

  • Greater China
  • 30 June 2010
Cleantech Q&A: Capital Dynamics

David Scaysbrook, founder of Novera Energy, and now MD of the new Clean Energy and Infrastructure team at $21 billion asset management firm Capital Dynamics, talks about the group’s new direct investment focus on the cleantech space.

  • Cleantech
  • 29 June 2010
Primus Nan Shan bid gets extension

The consortium led by Primus Financial Holdings and China Strategic Holdings, which has already inked an agreement to acquire Taiwan's Nan Shan Life Insurance from American International Group (AIG), has now announced a sought-after accord with the seller...

  • Greater China
  • 22 June 2010
Who's got talent?

Along with the rest of the world, private equity firms – and their investee companies – put the brakes on hiring through the financial crisis.

  • Performance
  • 22 June 2010
Liu made Beijing corporate head at DLA Piper

DLA Piper's Steven Liu has been appointed Head of Corporate Practice in Beijing, with responsibility for private equity and VC coverage, the firm has announced

  • Greater China
  • 15 June 2010
Indian government may limit Temasek, GIC ICICI holdings

The Indian finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India have lodged a query with the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over a proposal that Temasek Holdings and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) should increase their...

  • Deals
  • 10 June 2010
Fund structure for infrastructure
Fund structure for infrastructure

Infrastructure is now broadly recognized as a global market, yet there are marked differences based on region and substantial variations in risk.

  • Infrastructure
  • 08 June 2010
Carlyle invests $140 million in Asia growth

The Carlyle Group has announced the closing of four growth capital investments spread across Asia Pacific, collectively valued at $140 million, and made from the Carlyle Asia Growth Capital Partners IV (CAGPIV) fund, which had its $1.04 billion final...

  • Expansion
  • 08 June 2010
Asian SWFs ramp up in North American oil and gas
Asian SWFs ramp up in North American oil and gas

PRC petrochemicals major Sinopec’s $4.65 billion buy into Canadian heavy oil producer Syncrude, covered recently in AVCJ, had one extra salient feature.

  • North America
  • 01 June 2010
IFC backs NCMSL for Indian agro supply chain

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank unit responsible for private investment, plans to invest $7.5 million in equity, plus an additional $13 million in debt, into integrated supply chain and risk management services provider National...

  • South Asia
  • 28 May 2010
First Reserve takes high Calibre in Oz

That Australia's mining and metals sector is a powerhouse in global natural resources markets is well known.

  • Australasia
  • 25 May 2010
CITIC Capital Japan to take Higashiyama Film

HF Holdings, a wholly-owned special purpose vehicle formed by CITIC Capital Holdings Ltd, CITIC Capital Japan Partners II LP, Castle Rock Holdings SPRL and Wealth Rock Holdings SPRL, has announced it will acquire 55.3% of Higashiyama Film Ltd from its...

  • North Asia
  • 18 May 2010
IDFC Project Equity appoints Aggarwal MD Investments

Leading Indian infrastructure investor IDFC Project Equity has announced the internal promotion of a senior member of its energy team, Aditya Aggarwal, to the post of managing director in charge of investments.

  • South Asia
  • 18 May 2010
Summit Partners to open India office in 2011

Boston-based Summit Partners has just announced that it will open an office in the country in 2011.

  • South Asia
  • 14 May 2010
Movement in Pakistan with Shell LPG bids

Private equity in Pakistan has shown unprecedented activity with a competitive auction developing for Shell Petroleum's stake in Shell Gas Pakistan between JS Private Equity and local strategic Jamshoro Joint Venture Ltd, as well as a possible third bidder....

  • South Asia
  • 13 May 2010
Sinopec stakes its claim
Sinopec stakes its claim

Large PRC oil companies have been quietly taking ever-bigger positions in heavy oil businesses in Canada’s oil-rich Alberta province for some time.

  • Industrials
  • 12 May 2010
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