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Potentia makes improved buyout offer for Australia's Nitro

Potentia Capital has submitted a new bid for Nitro Software that values the listed Australian business at approximately AUD 532.3m and eclipses a competing offer from a strategic investor.

  • Australasia
  • 24 February 2023
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Anchorage agrees carve-out from New Zealand's Green Cross Health

Anchorage Capital Partners has agreed to buy New Zealand-based Green Cross Health’s community healthcare business – which provides in-home nursing, personal care, rehabilitation, social support, and household assistance services – for an enterprise...

  • Australasia
  • 24 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Operational Value Add: Sona Comstar

The Blackstone Group built a leader in India’s electric vehicle components space by combining – and then re-orienting – two traditional automotive players. Not even COVID-19 could stymie its progress

  • South Asia
  • 21 February 2023
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Rise Fund buys Malaysian university from KV Asia

The Rise Fund, TPG’s global impact investment platform, has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Malaysia-based Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) from KV Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Firm of the Year – Mid Cap: Pacific Equity Partners

Reflecting on a 12-month period characterised by a string of bumper exits, Australia’s Pacific Equity Partners sees a clear connection between performance and well-established team and culture

  • Australasia
  • 17 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Operational Value-add: Owndays

L Catterton’s investment in Japanese eyewear brand Owndays demonstrated a hands-on approach to sharing commercial networks, expertise in omnichannel scaling, and operating capabilities

  • North Asia
  • 16 February 2023
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Portfolio: KKR and NVC China

KKR is targeting the short-video generation in the traditionally middle-aged world of home lighting fixtures with NVC China. But that hasn’t stopped the brick-and-mortar footprint from mushrooming

  • Greater China
  • 15 February 2023
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Deal focus: Adamantem extends Retail Zoo’s PE story

Adamantem Capital bought Retail Zoo from Bain Capital with a view to continuing the rollout in Australia and overseas while potentially picking up more food and beverage brands

  • Australasia
  • 15 February 2023
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Value in adversity: Australia’s operational challenge

With Australia poised for a rarely-seen period of economic difficulty, the operational capabilities developed by domestic private equity firms will be put to the test

  • Australasia
  • 15 February 2023
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JIP submits buyout offer for Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation has confirmed the receipt of an acquisition proposal from Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), a local private equity firm best known for its expertise in corporate carve-outs.

  • North Asia
  • 10 February 2023
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Potentia gains due diligence access to Australia's Nitro

Potentia Capital has been invited to perform due diligence on buyout target Nitro Software after trumping a rival bid for the listed Australian company, ending months of board resistance to its overtures.

  • Australasia
  • 09 February 2023
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Carlyle launches tender offer for Japan's Iwasaki Electric

Iwasaki Electric, a Japanese lighting solutions provider that has worked on projects ranging from sports stadiums to hospitals, is set to be acquired by The Carlyle Group through a tender offer at a valuation of JPY 34.9bn (USD 266m).

  • North Asia
  • 08 February 2023
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Adamantem buys Australia's Retail Zoo from Bain

Adamantem Capital has acquired a majority stake in Retail Zoo, operator of Australia-headquartered food retail brands Boost Juice and Betty’s Burgers, from Bain Capital for an undisclosed sum.

  • Australasia
  • 07 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Deal of the Year – Large Cap: Crown Resorts

Crown Resorts represented a daunting target, given its size and pandemic and regulatory-related challenges. The Blackstone Group drew on its global know-how to make the USD 8.1bn deal work

  • Australasia
  • 07 February 2023
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AVCJ Awards 2022: Firm of the Year – Large Cap: Baring Private Equity Asia

Baring Private Equity Asia’s 2022 was punctuated by a high-profile merger with EQT, a bumper fundraise, and USD 10bn in exits. Jean Eric Salata, now head of BPEA EQT, shares his thoughts on the market

  • Buyouts
  • 03 February 2023
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US investor secures control option for Melbourne football club

Shareholders in Australian football club Melbourne Victory have approved a proposal that allows US-based investor 777 Partners to take a majority stake.

  • Australasia
  • 03 February 2023
MBK buys Japan aged care business

MBK Partners has acquired Unimat Retirement Community (URC), a Japan-based company that primarily provides in-home and residential nursing care services.

  • North Asia
  • 02 February 2023
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Japan's JGIA targets Wow World take-private

Japan Growth Investments Alliance (JGIA) has won board approval from Tokyo-listed Wow World Group for a take-private that values the business communications technology provider at JPY 6bn (USD 46.4m).

  • North Asia
  • 01 February 2023
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MBK, Unison Korea pursue dental implant buyout

MBK Partners and Unison Capital Korea have launched a tender offer for Osstem Implant, a Korea-based manufacturer of dental implants, that values the company at approximately KRW 2.85trn (USD 2.3bn).

  • North Asia
  • 30 January 2023
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Bain targets $236m buyout of Japan's Impact HD

A Bain Capital-backed take-private of Japanese one-stop field marketing services provider Impact HD, which values the company at approximately JPY 30.7bn (USD 236.3m), has won board support.

  • North Asia
  • 30 January 2023
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Australia's Potentia contests Nitro merger plan

Potentia Capital has appealed a decision by Australia’s Takeovers Panel not to intervene in a situation that has seen Nitro Software repeatedly rebuff acquisition proposals made by the private equity firm.

  • Australasia
  • 27 January 2023
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Deal focus: Orchestra seeks the right recipe for KFC Korea

Having secured permission to do sub-franchising and to make alterations to menus and store formats, Orchestra Private Equity believes it can succeed with KFC Korea where others failed

  • North Asia
  • 26 January 2023
Asia PE investment declines 40% in 2022

Asia private equity investment reached USD 223.9bn in 2023, a sharp decline from the USD 376.4bn recorded a year earlier, but still the second-largest annual total on record, according to provisional data from AVCJ Research.

  • Fundraising
  • 19 January 2023
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Asia GPs see reversion to norm on deal flow, valuations

Asia-focused buyout managers pointed to a return to a version of normality – with an anticipated upturn in investment and exits – in 2023 at the Hong Kong Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s (HKVCA) Asia forum.

  • Buyouts
  • 18 January 2023
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