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CVC's Leung, Kuan join Sun Hung Kai board
CVC Capital Partners has announced that Francis Leung, the firm's Chairman for Greater China, and William Ho, its Partner, have joined the board of investee Sun Hung Kai Financial as non-executive directors, with Managing Partner and Head of Asia Roy...
Composition staffs up in HK, Amsterdam
Composition Capital Partners, an Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based investment management firm focusing on private equity real estate funds-of-funds, has engaged Lionel Low as VP in its Hong Kong office, as well as Morag Beers and Maarten Vermeulen as Directors...
Starwood regains Rajagopal for India as Rao leaves
Starwood Capital Group, the real estate-focused private equity firm led by Barry Sternlicht, founder of Starwood Hotels and Resorts, has announced the re-engagement of Sundaram V. Rajagopal, a former VP with the firm, as MD for India and Southeast Asia.
Advantage GPs join media investee Qin Jia Yuan board
Emmett Thomas and Lincoln Pan, respectively Hong Kong-based Partner and Director at Tokyo-headquartered private equity firm Advantage Partners, will be joining the board of the firm's PRC media investee, Qin Jia Yuan Media Services.
Citi recruits Goldman's Osmond for ANZ
Citigroup in Australia has recruited Tony Osmond, formerly Goldman Sachs JBWere's local Head of M&A, Natural Resources and Industrials, as its new Head of Investment Banking for Australia and New Zealand, according to reports.
Citi private funds MD Crocker joins Atlantic-Pacific for ANZ
Managing Director of Citi’s Private Funds Group John Crocker has left the bank to join Atlantic-Pacific Capital as Partner in its private funds business, charged with marketing private equity, real estate and infrastructure funds in Australia and New...
Former CVCI MD Srinivasan seeks $400 million for India fund
Former MD of Citigroup Venture Capital International’s (CVCI) India operations, PR Srinivasan – who departed the company earlier this year - is set to raise between $350 million and $400 million for a domestic market-focused fund.
Update: Morgan Stanley co-head of M&A departs for Barclays
One month after news broke of Morgan Stanley's Asia Pacific head of M&A Edward King departing to Barclays, the British bank has reportedly lured one of King’s replacements at Morgan Stanley, Peter Ding.
Palisade Investment hires two managers
Australian infrastructure-focused investment firm Palisade Investment Partners has appointed Julian Widdup and Jane Watson as investment managers, following a sizeable but undisclosed fundraising close from institutional investors.
Temasek hires former UK business minister as consultant
Former British Minister for Economic Competitiveness, Small Business and Enterprise Baroness Shriti Vadera has been hired by Singaporean SWF Temasek Holdings as a consultant.
3i continues buyout wind-down in India
In light of 3i Group’s decision to pare down its buyout arm in Asia – folding its Singapore-led buyout team into its regional growth capital platform and transferring responsibility for Asian buyouts to its global buyout team – 3i India is merging...
Zhou joins LGT in Hong Kong
LGT Capital Partners has recruited Brooke Zhou as an Associate Vice President in its private equity investment team, based in Hong Kong, where she will focus on primary and secondary fund investments, as well as co-investments.
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.
Adams Street recruits Soo from GIC SI
Leading fund of funds and private equity investment management group Adams Street Partners has recruited Yar-Ping Soo, previously Head of Asia/Emerging Markets at Singapore's GIC Special Investments (GIC SI), as Partner with its investment team.
WI Harper appoints Lu as new COO
WI Harper Group, the veteran VC firm focusing on early and expansion stage investments, has appointed Jimmy Lu, hitherto co-founder/GP at iD Ventures America, the US arm of what was previously Acer Technology Ventures, as Executive MD and COO, based in...
Ex-Unilever Banga joins CDR for operations
Manvinder (Vindi) Singh Banga, formerly Chairman and MD of Unilever in India and later Singapore-based President of its Foods, Home and Personal Care division, is set to join the London office of global buyout major Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CDR), as...
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.
Telopea launches from Oz for regional PE, real estate, advisory
Telopea Capital Partners has opened in Sydney, Beijing and Hong Kong, seeking to make direct private equity and real estate investments with a new fund, as well as offering advisory services across the region.
StanChart expands leverage support
Standard Chartered Bank has added four new team members to its leverage finance unit for Northeast Asia, based in Hong Kong, following an increase in opportunities in the region.
Calello gains i-bank chair at Credit Suisse
Paul Calello, star investment banker at Credit Suisse in Asia Pacific from 2002 to 2007, has been appointed chairman of Credit Suisse investment bank worldwide, vacating his previous global i-bank CEO role.
3i winds down Asia buyout practice
The UK's 3i Group has wound down its buyout arm in Asia, after merging its Singapore-led buyout team into its growth capital platform in the region, and transferring responsibility for Asian buyouts to its global buyout team.
HSBC recruits Hsu as head of leveraged finance
HSBC Holdings plc has appointed Lyndon Hsu, formerly with Credit Suisse Group, as head of leveraged and acquisition finance for Asia Pacific, joining after 14 years at the Swiss bank.
CIC’s Yingru Li joins China Asean Fund
Yingru Li, previously MD in charge of private equity fund investments and co-investments at PRC SWF the China Investment Corp. (CIC), has been appointed co-Chief Investment Officer of the China Asean Fund, a $1 billion infrastructure-focused vehicle supported...
Gupta joins Nexus as MD
Indian VC firm Nexus Venture Partners has announced the hire of Anup Gupta, hitherto Group COO at leading NYSE-listed BPO company WNS (Holdings) Ltd., as a Managing Director.