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AVCJ Awards: Deal of the Year - Large Cap: Nanfu Battery
CDH Investments’ acquisition of Nanfu Battery is a rare carve-out from a multinational in China, and an even rarer example of a PE firm returning to back a former portfolio company
AVCJ Awards: VC Professional of the Year: GGV Capital's Jixun Foo
Jixun Foo, Shanghai-based managing partner at GGV Capital, recognizes concerns about heady tech valuations, but says they must be viewed in context
AVCJ Awards: Deal of the Year - Venture Capital: Flipkart
Flipkart received $1 billion in funding from a consortium of investors in July. It is ammunition for the arms race currently consuming India’s e-commerce industry
AVCJ Awards: Fundraising of the Year - Mid Cap: Quadrant Private Equity
Quadrant Private Equity raised its seventh fund in record time, resisting pressure from LPs to enlarge the corpus. The Australian GP remains resolutely middle market
AVCJ Awards: Fundraising of the Year - Venture Capital: Qiming Venture Partners
Qiming Venture Partners closed its latest fund at $500 million this year. It wants a bigger slice of a growing Chinese internet market – but so does everyone else
AVCJ Awards: Operational Value Add & Exit of the Year - Large Cap: Oriental Brewery
Affinity Equity Partners and KKR made Oriental Brewery the market leader in Korea’s beer industry, then exited via Asia’s largest-ever trade sale. For this and other activities, Affinity was also named Firm of the Year
Carlyle, Unison to exit Japan semiconductor firm Covalent
The Carlyle Group and Unison Capital are to exit their stake in Covalent Materials, a Japanese semiconductor materials manufacturer, to US ceramics group CoorsTek.
Chinese taxi-booking app Didi Dache raises $700m
Singapore’s Temasek Holdings, DST Global and Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings have led a new round of funding worth $700 million for Didi Dache, a Chinese taxi-booking app.
Hony makes partial exit from Zoomlion via buyback
Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology, China’s biggest construction equipment marker, has agreed to buy back a 2.19% stake in itself from Hony Capital for RMB843 million ($136 million).
Ping An VC, Qiming invest $30m in China car-sharing platform
Ping An Ventures, a VC arm of insurer Ping An Group, and Qiming Venture Partners have co-led a $30 million Series A round of funding for Baojia.com, a Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) car-sharing platform.
Fidelity backs China-based antibody specialist
Two Fidelity funds have participated in a Series A round of funding worth $8 million for Adagene, a China-based life sciences company that specializes in smart antibody technology.
RBI to allow India's AIFs to invest overseas
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said it will allow alternative investment funds (AIFs), to invest overseas.
Q&A: Rabo Equity Advisors' Rajesh Srivastava
Rabo Equity Partners is in the process of raising its second India agribusiness fund. Rajesh Srivastava, a managing director at the firm, offers his views on the tailwinds and headwinds driving the sector
Cool Japan funds invest $16.7m in ramen chain
The Japanese government-backed Cool Japan Fund has agreed to invest JPY2 billion ($16.7 million) in Chikaranomoto Holdings, the restaurant operator behind international ramen noodle chain Hakata Ippudo.
KKR backs desert-farming solution
Tough climatic challenges are in store for South Australia, already the nation's driest state. Agriculture, which is worth more than $5 billion each year to the state, will increasingly be affected by rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.
SoftBank hitches a ride with GrabTaxi
Six months ago, Southeast Asia-focused mobile taxi-booking platform GrabTaxi was adjusting to the fact that its resources had ballooned by $15 million, following a Series B round provided by GGV Capital and Qunar. On this basis, the past six weeks have...
China's NSSF and offshore PE: Still theory, no practice
Regulations proposed by the government for China’s National Social Security Fund include a provision that suggests the pension fund could invest in offshore private equity. But how soon?
Tech valuations: Ill-fated inflation?
As valuations in the tech space continue to soar, comparisons are inevitably drawn with the dotcom bubble era. Asia can point to favorable fundamentals, but it remains to be seen whether the exuberance is justified
The trust factor: Repeat buying in Asian PE
Navis Capital Partners completed a management buyout of Dome Coffees Australia in 2003. The business grew and Navis prospered, securing a 3.5x return on exiting the asset via another management buyout five years later. Fast forward to September 2014 and...
I Squared Capital to buy India toll road from Malaysia's IJM
I Squared Capital, a PE firm set up by former executives of Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure investment unit, has agreed to buy a toll road in northwestern India from Malaysia-based IJM Corp.
VC-backed LanzaTech raises $60m from NZ Super
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has provided $60 million growth capital for low-carbon fuels producer LanzaTech.
CITIC launches tender offer for Japan's Schott Moritex
CITIC Capital Partners has launched a tender offer to acquire a controlling stake in Schott Moritex Corporation, a Japan-based manufacturer of vision lenses for machines.
Tiantu commits $16m in Chinese electric scooter manufacturer Inmotion
Chinese GP Tiantu Capital has committed RMB100 million ($16 million) in a Series B round of funding for Inmotion Technologies, a manufacturer of sensor controlled vehicles.
Japan PE acquires plastics manufacturer, elderly care business
Mid-market GP Japan Private Equity has acquired plastics manufacturer Sekisui Chemicals and care home services business Healthy Service via its third buyout fund.