Investments
Next Capital's investee Onsite completes acquisition
Next Capital-owned contracting and recruitment services firm Onsite Rental Group has acquired Statewide Equipment Hire, a supplier of for-hire construction equipment, for A$70 million ($69.7 million).
Advantage Partner may take on restructuring money for Tokyo Star
Advantage Partners, the Tokyo-based buyout firm, is reportedly considering giving up three of its five board seats of its 100%-owned investee - and troubled lender - Tokyo Star Bank to creditors.
Ant Capital exits Maruboshi
Japanese private equity firm Ant Capital Partners has exited its 100% stake in Maruboshi Co., a private document production and translation service company to CMC CO., a listed manual-service provider, for JPY1.68 billion ($20.3 million).
Temasek continues exit streak with Fortescue divestment
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings raised $877 million through the sale of its entire 4.1% stake in Australia’s third-largest iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group to a group of overseas institutions.
Japan's Risa Partners to sell its real estate assets
Distressed investors Fortress Investment Group, Lone Star and Cerberus have emerged as potential bidders to acquire the real estate assets of private equity firm Risa Partners.
MBK may partner with Hana for KEB
MBK Partners, the Korean buyout firm, has reportedly proposed investing KRW1 trillion ($891.6 million) to help Hana Financial Group to buy a controlling stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB), according to the Korean Times.
EQT acquires Classic Fine Foods
EQT Greater China II has taken a 96% stake in Classic Fine Foods Group (CFF), a multinational importer and distributor of fine foods, from London-based Vestey Group Ltd.
Temasek sells out of Thai hospital; on the sly?
This week, a letter to the Stock Exchange of Thailand revealed that a 12.6% stake in Bumrungrad Hospital had been sold mid-January by several investors, one of which included Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings. Interestingly, the letter...
Valiant exits Japanese drug dispensary group
Valiant Partners Co., a SME-focused private equity firm, has exited its stake in portfolio company Hanshin Dispensing Pharmacy Co., a Kobe-based pharmacy chain operator. The fund sold its entire stake to a holding company owned by the Iwasaki family,...
Temasek divests Thai hospital stake
In a letter to The Stock Exchange of Thailand, the Director of Bumrungrad Hospital said that the group has been notified by Temasek – Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund – that it has sold nearly 42.7 million shares of the group for THB29.25 ($0.95) per...
Temasek pays antitrust fine
Indonesia’s antitrust agency (KPPU) has reportedly announced that Temasek Holdings has paid 15 billion rupiah ($1.66 million) through its partially owned affiliate, PT Telkomsel, as its portion of an outstanding fine owed after the group was found in...
PE bids for Japan consumer lender: reports
According to reports in local Japanese press, a short list of bidders for Japanese consumer lender Takefuji Corp include: TPG Capital; nonbank financial firm in Kyoto, Japan, J Trust Co.; a major South Korean consumer credit company; and Tokyo-based...
Blackstone investee buys Norwegian firm
China National Bluestar, a government-run chemicals firm backed by the Blackstone Group, is set to purchase Elkem, a Norwegian maker of silicon and renewable energy products for $2 billion, marking one of the largest acquisitions of a European company...
Valiant Partners exits Hanshin Dispensing Pharmacy
Valiant Partners Co., an SME-focused private equity firm, has exited portfolio company Hanshin Dispensing Pharmacy Co., a Kobe-based pharmacy chain operator.
Mizuho Capital takes Japanese mail order company private
Mizuho Capital Partners, a Japanese buyout firm based in Tokyo, will help Image Holdings Co., a listed mail order company, to go private through an MBO in conjunction with current president Masakazu Myoga.
Tata terminates Olympus Capital deal
Tata Power, one of India's leading and most influential energy firms, has terminated its $300 million investment deal with Olympus Capital just six months after the parties – energized by the prospect of the high-stakes deal – brokered the transaction....
Walden International launches Fujian Haiyuan Automatic Equipments on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Walden International investee Fujian Haiyuan Automatic Equipments has launched on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange at a 30% premium to its initial offer price, at RMB18 ($2.70) a share to raise a total RMB3,742M ($561 million) on its first day of trading on...
CVC's Nine Entertainment nears IPO
CVC has named Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse and UBS as its advisers for the intended public debut of Australian TV network Nine Entertainment, according to Australian reports, in a process that could come by the spring.
China Development Bank-led consortium takes stake in LDK Solar subsidiary
LDK Solar Co., a Jiangxi-headquartered manufacturer of solar energy-related wafers, has sold a 18.46% stake of its polysilicon manufacturing division to a consortium of investors, led by China Development Bank Capital Corporation, for $240 million.
Citi VC exits Camelot
Citigroup Venture Capital International Growth Partnership and Citigroup Venture Capital International Co-Investment have officially exited their stakes in Camelot Information Systems, a provider of business solutions and IT services in China, as part...
Korean Development Bank to exit Korea Express
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) is reportedly set to fully sell Korean logistics major Korea Express by the middle of the year.
Leopard Capital takes stake in Laos hydro-power firm
Leopard Capital L.P., through its Leopard Cambodia Fund, has taken a 2.32% stake in the soon-to-be publicly listed Laos hydro-electric power company Electricite Du Laos Generating Company (EDL Genco).
Carlyle divests China Pacific Insurance
Days after The Carlyle Group announced that it would sell $860 million worth of shares in China Pacific Insurance, the third-largest insurer in the PRC, the US buyout giant declared that it will offload an additional 415 million shares in the company,...
Goldman Sachs to exit Japanese golf operator
Goldman Sachs is set to sell its remaining 44.7% stake in Japan’s largest golf course operator Accordia Golf, coming nearly five years after the American investment bank offloaded 55.3% of the company at the time of Accordia’s IPO.