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AVCJ at 30: Part Two - The Asian Financial Crisis
Weijian Shan of PAG Asia Capital, Piau-Voon Wang, Dan Carroll of Brooklands Capital Strategies, and Michael Kim of MBK Partners on the impact of the Asian financial crisis
Q&A: Brooklands Capital Strategies' Dan Carroll
Dan Carroll, a founding partner at Brooklands Capital Strategies, cut his teeth with H&Q Asia Pacific and then helped build Newbridge Capital. He told AVCJ how private equity forced its way into the mainstream
Asian club deals: Big ambitions
A resurgence in club deal activity has proven symptomatic of the evolution of Asia's private equity buyout market. But while the structure and the nature of deals has changed, the underlying rationale remains fixed
Strained relations: Foreign PE and financial services
Global buyout firms have seen less deal flow in South Korea in recent years, with financial services sector activity a shadow of its former self. This doesn’t necessarily mean they are unwelcome
AVCJ at 25: Weijian Shan of PAG
Weijian Shan, chairman and CEO of PAG, made his name in private equity turning around troubled companies for Newbridge Capital. Two bank deals helped open international investors’ eyes to the Asia buyout opportunity
AVCJ at 25: Turning points
To mark the 25th anniversary of Asian Venture Capital Journal, we highlight five key phases in the development of asset class in Asia and talk to the individuals involved. Two of the phases are births – of a sort – and the other three are crises, a reminder...
History lessons of PE in Asia
With 2012 marking the 25th anniversary of the AVCJ Hong Kong Forum – and, give or take a year, the Asian Venture Capital Journal itself – we have been taking a trip down memory lane for some special content to be released later in the year. This involves...
TPG exits Taishin Financial for $182m
TPG Capital sold its entire 7.8% stake in Taiwanese lender Taishin Financial for around $181.5 million after the Taiwan market closed on Wednesday.
Longreach considers En Tie Bank sale - sources
Japan-focused private equity firm Longreach Group is said to be weighing up the prospect of selling its majority stake in Taiwanese lender En Tie Commercial Bank.
TPG, Northstar in cross-investment deal
What does it say about the shifting sands in private equity when an Asian GP is able to get a stake in a global buyout firm? Indonesia-based Northstar Pacific has achieved just that through a cross-investment deal with TPG. The US firm will take 10-20%...
Chinese outbound M&A: Unfamiliar territory
Griffin's Foods is inching its way to market. For some weeks now, rumors have been circulating that Pacific Equity Partners (PEP)-owned New Zealand snack foods business was being primed for sale. The whispers accelerated last week when reports emerged...
PE firms struggle to secure Woori stake
It was the $6 billion question: Would the Korean government sell control of the country’s third-largest lender to a private equity firm? Had the answer been yes - and Korea Deposit Insurance Corp. (KDIC) exited Woori Financial Group to one of three local...
President of PE-backed Taishin Financial feared dead after fall
Taiwanese rescue teams are continuing their search for the president of Newbridge Capital-backed Taishin Financial Holdings, Keh Hsiao Lin, after the executive fell from a 100-meter-high cliff during a nighttime climb of Shusuei Mountain Wednesday.