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CHAMP-backed Shelf Drilling completes $1b acquisition

Shelf Drilling, the Dubai-based shallow water drilling services company backed by Australia’s CHAMP Private Equity, its US affiliate Castle Harlan, and Lime Rock Partners, has completed the acquisition of assets worth $1.05 billion. The PE investment,...

  • Australasia
  • 04 December 2012
Goldman invests in PE-backed Fresh Water Group

Goldman Sachs has led a new round of funding for Fresh Water Group, a Chinese purified water service provider already backed by SAIF Partners and Ares Management.

  • Greater China
  • 04 December 2012
Tata Capital acquires stake in Pluss Polymers

Tata Capital has acquired a stake in Pluss Polymers for INR150 million ($2.7 million). The investment was made through the Tata Capital Innovations Fund and is intended to help the company, a specialized polymer maker, to further its R&D and manufacturing...

  • South Asia
  • 03 December 2012
Oaktree-backed Fusheng buys German air compressor maker

Oaktree Capital Management-backed Fusheng Industrial, Greater China's biggest maker of industrial air compressors, has acquired its German rival ALMiG Kompressoren. ALMiG management has re-invested in the merged entity.

  • Greater China
  • 03 December 2012
CDIB Capital invests in US-based Smith-Cooper

CDIB Capital, the overseas investment arm of China Development Financial Holding Corporation, has invested in Smith-Cooper International, a US-based manufacturer of pipe, valves and fittings. Blue Point Capital Partners also participated in the funding...

  • Greater China
  • 22 November 2012
Everstone, ICICI invest $23.5m in Sohan Lal Commodity

Everstone Capital and ICICI Bank's Emerging India Fund (EIF) have jointly invested INR1.3 billion ($23.5 million) in Sohan Lal Commodity Management as part of a Series C round of funding. The two investors now own stakes of 25.55% and 6.93%, respectively.

  • Investments
  • 21 November 2012
Malaysia’s Ekuinas wants Icon Offshore to list by 2014

Ekuinas, the Malaysia sovereign wealth fund, plans to list its oil and gas services unit, Icon Offshore, within three years. Abdul Rahman Ahmad, the Icon’s CEO, said the company was already eligible for an IPO but they want to wait until earnings justify...

  • Industrials
  • 21 November 2012
MBK’s Coway deal revived after court approval

MBK Partners’s acquisition of a significant minority stake in water purifier manufacturer Woongjin Coway appears to be back on track after a South Korean court approved the KRW1.2 trillion ($1.1 billion) deal. The deal was put on hold last month after...

  • North Asia
  • 12 November 2012
Q&A: Unitas Capital's John Lewis

John Lewis, chief investment officer at Unitas Capital, talks to AVCJ about the importance of reputation in Asia from fundraising through post-deal value-add to exiting portfolio companies to multinational buyers

  • GPs
  • 09 November 2012
CHAMP PE sells off Blue Star’s Australian operation

CHAMP Private Equity is said to have exited the Australian arm of printing and communications company Blue Star Group to a consortium including Wolseley Private Equity and CaxtonWeb. Blue Star’s New Zealand operations area also expected to be sold off.

  • Exits
  • 07 November 2012
PE investors inject $50m into Huaxia Dairy

Olympus Capital has led a group investors including California Technology Ventures, Herostar Holdings and Grand River Capital in committing $50 million stake in Chinese milk producer Huaxia Dairy Farm.

  • Greater China
  • 02 November 2012
Carlyle to buy Diversey Japan from Sealed Air

The Carlyle Group has agreed to by Japanese sanitation business Diversey Japan from the Sealed Air Corporation for JPY30 billion ($377 million).

  • North Asia
  • 31 October 2012
Allegro Funds leads MBO of Australia’s Hastie Services

Allegro Funds has completed a management buyout of Australian industrial services group Hastie Services, months after parent company Lazard-backed Hastie Group went into administration.

  • Australasia
  • 31 October 2012
Ekuinas acquires Malaysian shipping services provider

Ekuinas, the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, has completed a MYR220.9 million ($72.3 million) buyout of OMNI Petromaritime, a company that provides offshore support vessels to the oil and gas industry. Ekuinas acquired an 82.5% stake in OMNI for MYR150.9...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 31 October 2012
Korean court says Woongjin will honor MBK’s Coway deal

A South Korean court overseeing bankruptcy proceedings of Woongjin Holdings has said that the company’s biggest shareholder will honor an agreement to sell a controlling stake in subsidiary Woongjin Coway to MBK Partners. The deal was put on hold last...

  • North Asia
  • 26 October 2012
CHAMP PE completes Gerard Lighting take-private

CHAMP Private Equity has completed the A$186 million ($192 million) buyout of Australian light fittings distributor Gerard Lighting Group. The company will de-list from the Australian Stock Exchange at the close of today’s trading, just over two years...

  • Australasia
  • 25 October 2012
CHAMP Ventures enters lonely waters

The Torres Strait separates the northern tip of Queensland from Papua New Guinea. It contains more than 270 small islands, most falling under the jurisdiction of Australia, and of which only a handful are inhabited. Cairns, the nearest urban center, is...

  • Buyouts
  • 25 October 2012
Cathay Fortune's Discovery Metals takeover bid turns hostile

Cathay Fortune Corporation (CFC), the private equity group founded by Chinese billionaire Yong Yu, has made a direct approach to Discovery Metals shareholders after the company's board rebuffed its A$830m ($856m) takeover bid.

  • Australasia
  • 24 October 2012
India’s Rain Commodities buys Triton-owned Rütgers

Indian industrial group Rain Commodities has agreed to buy Rütgers, a German chemicals producer, from Northern Europe-focused private equity firm Triton. With an enterprise value of EUR702 million ($918 million), the deal is by some distance the largest...

  • Exits
  • 24 October 2012
CHAMP Ventures in marine logistics buyout

CHAMP Ventures as acquired a majority interest in Sea Swift, an Australian marine logistics company that delivers supplies to remote island and coastal communities and resource development outposts. HarbourVest Partners is participating as a co-investor.

  • Buyouts
  • 22 October 2012
PE-backed Hawker Beechcraft sees China sale collapse

Negotiations over the sale of PE-backed corporate jet business Hawker Beechcraft to China’s Superior Aviation Beijing have collapsed.

  • Greater China
  • 22 October 2012
PE consortium in $330m take-private bid for China's Yongye

Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA) and Abax Global Capital are backing a $330 million bid by the chairman of Yongye International to take private the US-listed Chinese animal and plant feed maker.

  • Greater China
  • 16 October 2012
Discovery Metals rejects Cathay Fortune buyout offer

Australian copper miner Discovery Metals has rejected a A$830 million ($848 million) takeover bid from Chinese private equity firm Cathay Fortune Corporation (CFC) and state-sponsored China-Africa Development Fund (CAD).

  • Industrials
  • 12 October 2012
Japan’s INCJ to compete with PE on national interest grounds

Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ) is prepared to compete with privately-owned firms where doing so would be in the country's national interest. It comes after the Japanese government fund was said to be mulling making an offer last month for Renesas,...

  • North Asia
  • 10 October 2012
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