Bain Capital Asia
"Big boys" battle it out in India
India's mid-cap market has materialized as a battleground for top-name private equity firms, as funds including Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Baring and ICICI Venture have emerged as contenders to invest between $50-75 million in two domestic...
Russian roulette for PRC investing
The most populous country in the world, China, has been made out to be something of a promised land for private equity.
Allies of GOME's Huang issue open letter to Bain-backed board
A group representing "the founding shareholders of GOME Electrical Appliances," including jailed former GOME chairman Huang Guangyu, has issued an open letter to current shareholders, claiming that the company's chairman, Chen Xiao, backed by Bain Capital,...
KKR, Bain, others vie for mid-cap investment in aero-focused Quest Global
Bain Capital, ChrysCapital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., and Warburg Pincus are said to be competing to make an up-to $75 million investment in aeroengineering and manufacturing consultancy Quest Global - a unique scenario, as such global funds have...
Alinta investors still in talks
TPG Capital – both its TPG Opportunities Partners debt unit and its private equity funds – Oaktree Capital, and Anchorage Advisers are still in talks with Bain Capital affiliate Sankaty Advisors and other debt holders about distressed Australian power...
Bain's Sankaty opposes TPG-led Alinta rescue in Australia
Sankaty Advisors, the special situations/credit affiliate of Bain Capital, is opposing the bailout plan led by TPG Capital's TPG Opportunities Partners unit, with Oaktree Capital and Anchorage Advisers, for struggling Australian power producer Alinta...
Bain converts GOME bonds to get 10% stake
US buyout firm Bain Capital has converted its RMB1.59 billion ($236 million) of bond shares in troubled Hong Kong-listed investee GOME Electrical Appliances Holdings, the second largest electric retail chain in the PRC, into a 9.98% equity stake, gaining...
Providence out of bidding race for Taiwan's CNS - reports
PE firm Providence Equity Partners has reportedly dropped out of the race to acquire MBK Partners-backed Taiwan cable operator China Network Systems (CNS) – an asset that could fetch up to $2 billion - leaving players Australian investment bank Macquarie...
GOME spat with founder continues
In the latest development in the ongoing feud between Bain Capital investee HKSE-listed GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Ltd. and its disgraced and imprisoned founder Huang Guangyu, Huang has apparently sought to terminate procurement and management...
Bain sets conversion of GOME shares
Controversial Bain Capital investee GOME Electrical Appliances Holdings has revealed that Bain will exercise its convertible bond stake in the company before a special meeting scheduled for September 28, giving it a 10% effective position.
Bain, Macquarie, Permira in frame for MBK's CNS
Bain Capital and the UK's Permira Advisers, as well as Macquarie Group, are among the final bidders selected by MBK Partners for its Taiwanese cable investee Cable Network Systems (CNS), which could fetch up to $2.5 billion, according to reports.
VC-backed REVA lists in Oz
Venture capital-backed REVA Medical, a San Diego-based innovative medical device company, has raised $63 million from its initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Macquarie, Providence and Bain bid on Taiwans CNS
Australia’s Macquarie Group and U.S. buyout fund Providence Equity Partners have submitted bids to acquire Taiwan’s cable network operator China Network Systems (CNS), currently 60%-owned by Pan-Asia-focused buyout firm MBK Partners, in a process that...
Bain-backed Gome Electric sues its founder and former chairman
Bain-backed Gome Electric Appliance Holdings, a leading Chinese electrical appliance chain operator, has taken its founder, Huang Guangyu, to Hong Kong’s High Court for allegedly breaching his fiduciary duties as the company's Director.
Amit Chandra of Bain Capital
Amit Chandra, Managing Director of Bain Capital India, discusses why India tends to be over-built in its private equity industry and what that means for both short-term and long-term investments.
Bain goes for Mr. China's ASIMCO
Bain Capital is to become the controlling shareholder of ASIMCO Technologies Ltd., the Beijing-based manufacture of automotive components made famous by the book ‘Mr. China,’ for $150 million.
MBK CNS process could jumpstart Taiwan deals
North Asia-focused buyout firm MBK Partners has started the formal sale process for its Taiwanese cable TV/broadband asset China Network Systems (CNS) with the first bidding round, forecast to fetch up to $2.5 billion in a deal shaping up to be one of...
Entertainment and media is where it's at
According to PricewaterhouseCooper’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook, following a depressed 2009, during which E&M spend fell 5.4% from 2008, the industry is experiencing a 5% compounded annual growth spurt with the extended forecast period to 2014...
Bain Capital to invest $150 million in ASIMCO
Bain Capital has reached an agreement to acquire $150 million of controlling shares in ASIMCO Technologies Ltd., the Beijing-based manufacture of automotive components made famous in the book 'Mr. China', from existing shareholders, including some private...
Bain exits Feixiang Chemicals ahead of Rhodia acquistion
Bain Capital is set to offload its investment in China's Feixiang Chemicals ahead of the company's full acquisition by French chemical developer Rhodia for $489 million.
Providence in lead for CHAMP's Study Group
US-based media and entertainment-focused Providence Equity Partners is reportedly front runner to acquire Australian education-services provider Study Group International from CHAMP Private Equity, six months after the latter first considered taking the...
Results, however volatile, in China
According to the recent AVCJ Private Equity and Venture Capital Report China 2010, around $12.9 billion was invested into the PRC over 2009, accounting for just under 30% of all private equity investment in Asia, China’s highest total ever by market share....
China: Dangerous liaisons?
Where are you looking to allocate capital? When AVCJ asked global LPs this question, the majority said: “China.”
Patient capital?
Going by some informal feedback to AVCJ, one could be forgiven for thinking that many LPs have learned nothing from the GFC.