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Deal focus: GoBear builds financial menu for Southeast Asia

GoBear, a Singapore-headquartered financial services platform, believes it can create financial products suitable for consumers and institutional partners alike

  • Southeast Asia
  • 03 June 2020
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KKR targets stake in Philippine power developer

KKR has offered to acquire up to 9% of First Gen Corporation, a power plant operator in the Philippines, for PHP7.29 billion ($144 million).

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 May 2020
Exacta leads acquisition of Anytime Fitness Asia

Exacta Capital Partners, a Singapore-based private equity firm affiliated with Mizuho Bank, has led an acquisition of gym operator Anytime Fitness Asia for an undisclosed sum.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 28 May 2020
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Singapore’s GoBear raises $17m

Singapore-headquartered GoBear, a financial services platform focused on Asian consumers, has raised $17 million from Netherlands-based Walvis Participaties and Aegon

  • Southeast Asia
  • 27 May 2020
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ADQ launches $300m India, Southeast Asia VC fund

ADQ, a state-owned holding company in the United Arab Emirates, has launched an AED1.1 billion fund ($300 million) that will invest in Indian and Southeast Asian start-ups with expansion plans in the Middle East.

  • South Asia
  • 21 May 2020
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UAE’s EMPG acquires Rocket-backed Lamudi Global

EMPG, a real estate classifieds marketplace group headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, has acquired Lamudi Global, which runs property market portals in the Philippines and Indonesia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 May 2020
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Deal focus: Oriente’s plastic alternative

Well-capitalized though not immune to COVID-19 disruption, Indonesia and Philippines-focused online lender Oriente is waiting for the market to get back to normal

  • Expansion
  • 07 May 2020
Navegar backs Series B for Australia's Cloudstaff

Manila-based GP Navegar has joined a $20 million Series B round for Cloudstaff, an Australian staff outsourcing services player with core operations in the Philippines.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 05 May 2020
Archipelago targets $250m for second Southeast Asia fund

Archipelago Capital Partners is seeking $250 million for its second Southeast Asia fund and has received a proposed $25 million LP commitment from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

  • Southeast Asia
  • 04 May 2020
KKR joins $120m investment in Philippines’ Voyager

KKR is re-upping in Philippines-based financial technology company Voyager Innovations as part of a $120 million growth round.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 07 April 2020
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VCs invest Philippines digital bank Tonik

Insignia Ventures Partners and Credence Partners are backing a Philippines rollout by Tonik Financial, which claims to be the first digital-only bank in Southeast Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 28 February 2020
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Deal focus: Navegar dips its toe in e-commerce

Navegar sees Great Deals E-commerce, a provider of delivery and digital services to traditional retailers in the Philippines, as a proxy for growth in online shopping

  • Southeast Asia
  • 05 February 2020
Australia's Five V makes another BPO bolt-on

Australia’s Five V Capital has acquired Philippines business process outsourcing (BPO) player Beepo as a portfolio company bolt-on. It is the GP’s second such transaction this month.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 30 January 2020
Navegar backs Philippines e-commerce enabler

Philippines private equity firm Navegar has invested $12 million in local online retail industry services provider Great Deals E-commerce.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 January 2020
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Australia's Five V agrees Philippines outsourcing carve-out

Australian GP Five V Capital has agreed a A$100 million ($69 million) carve-out of Philippines business offshoring specialist MicroSourcing as a bolt-on for an existing portfolio company.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 09 January 2020
Philippines-based Xurpas acquires Wavemaker Partners

Philippines consumer technology developer Xurpas has agreed to acquire the US operations of venture capital firm Wavemaker Partners.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 07 November 2019
ARQ Capital backs Philippines dialysis business

ARQ Capital, a Philippines-based GP focused on the local small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector, has invested an undisclosed sum in dialysis clinic operator Medline.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 24 October 2019
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Philippines PE: Power dynamics

A virtually impenetrable middle market under the control of incumbent conglomerates is the least governable of the systemic obstacles facing private equity hopefuls in the Philippines

  • Southeast Asia
  • 15 October 2019
KKR, GIC to invest $680m in Philippines hospital operator

A KKR-led consortium has agreed to invest PHP35.3 billion ($680 million) in Metro Pacific Hospital Holdings (MPHH), prompting the Philippines-based hospital operator to abandon immediate plans for an IPO.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 15 October 2019
No easy answers in Philippines’ sluggish VC market – AVCJ Forum

Industry participants at the AVCJ Philippines Forum were hard-pressed to explain a disappointing lag in local venture capital ecosystem development.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 10 October 2019
GIC-backed Metro Pacific Hospital files for Philippines IPO

Metro Pacific Hospitals Holdings (MPHH), a unit of Philippines-based conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), has filed for a domestic IPO. GIC is a minority shareholder in the business.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 09 September 2019
Deal focus: Jollibee circles as Coffee Bean booms in Asia

The Philippines’ Jollibee Foods is set to buy US cafe chain The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to continue a massive Asian expansion effort. Exiting investor CDIB Capital attests to the opportunity set

  • Southeast Asia
  • 02 August 2019
PE investors exit The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to Jollibee

Advent International, CDIB Capital and Mirae Asset Private Equity are set to exit US-based cafe chain The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf after the Philippines’ Jollibee Foods agreed to pay $350 million for the company.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 25 July 2019
Deal focus: Archipelago makes Philippines banking play

Archipelago Capital Partners takes a minority stake in One Network Bank to support its parent's plans to lead the country's rural banking sector

  • Southeast Asia
  • 23 May 2019
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