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Southeast Asia

KV Asia in Singapore aged care buyout

One in every three people in Singapore will be aged 65-plus by 2050, based on current birth rates and without an influx of youthful migrants. The country’s median age will rise to 55, up from the current level of 39. Just over the next seven years, the...

  • Buyouts
  • 14 May 2014
Denham mines Pembroke talent

When Barry Tudor stepped down as CEO of listed mining firm Gloucester Coal in 2012, he left behind quite a legacy. Tudor and his team shepherded the firm through a number of high-profile acquisitions – including that of Australia’s Middlemount Project...

  • Industrials
  • 14 May 2014
Taiwan: Integration imperative

Taiwan’s stand-off over the cross-strait services pact is an impediment to integration, but missing out on the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be worse. Regulators know they must do more, and PE should benefit

  • Greater China
  • 14 May 2014
Play the man

Denham Capital's investment in Pembroke Resources appears to follow a standard pattern: Find a management team with a track record of building and selling resources companies; furnish them with start-up capital to accumulate a portfolio of assets; provide...

  • Investments
  • 14 May 2014
KV Asia buys Singapore nursing home business

KV Asia Capital has bought a 100% interest in Orange Valley Healthcare, a Singapore-based nursing home provider that operates approximately 1,000 beds across six facilities.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 May 2014
Life sciences player NuSep gets PE funding for Singapore unit

Xeraya Capital, a life sciences investor controlled by Khazanah Nasional, and PE fund JP Asia Prime Capital have invested S$16 million ($12.8 million) in PrIME Biologics, a subsidiary of NuSep that specializes in therapeutic plasma products.

  • Healthcare
  • 12 May 2014
Carlyle opens Jakarta office

The Carlyle Group has opened has expanded its Asia presence to Indonesia, opening an office in Jakarta, its ninth in the region.

  • People
  • 08 May 2014
SE Asia power developer Navigat gets additional PE backing

Indonesia-focused PE firm Mahanusa Capital and Gunung Sewu Group have invested $21 million in Navigat Group, a distributed power plant developer and power equipment distributor in Southeast Asia.

  • Expansion
  • 05 May 2014
GIC invests $76m in Philippines canned foods firm

GIC Private has agreed to invest PHP3.4 billion ($76.6 million) in Philippines-based canned foods distributor Century Canning Corporation (CCC). The move comes as CCC’s subsidiary, Century Pacific Foods (CNPF), prepares to go public.

  • Expansion
  • 05 May 2014
Mekong, CDH complete partial exit from Vietnam's Mobile World

Mekong Capital and CDH Investments have completed partial exits from Vietnamese mobile phone retailer Mobile World through a pre-IPO private placement. Mekong’s portion of the sale represents a 21.8x return on an investment made in 2007.

  • Exits
  • 24 April 2014
Vertex leads round for Southeast Asia taxi-booking app

Vertex Ventures, a unit of Temasek Holdings, has led a round of funding for GrabTaxi, a taxi booking app set up in Malaysia that is looking to continue its expansion into other Southeast Asian markets.

  • Venture
  • 09 April 2014
Temasek invests $40m in India's StarAgri

Temasek Holdings has invested INR2.5 billion ($40 million) in Indian agri-services provider Star Agriwarehousing and Collateral Management.

  • South Asia
  • 04 April 2014
Standard Chartered backs Australia-listed manganese miner

Standard Chartered Principal Finance has provided a $50 million debt financing package for OM Holdings (OMH), an Australian Securities Exchange-listed mining company, and several of its affiliates.

  • Industrials
  • 04 April 2014
Singapore VC: Silicon dreams

Buoyed by government support and increasing private sector interest, Singapore has created a legion of tech start-ups that now require further investment. Can it become Southeast Asia’s answer to Silicon Valley?

  • Southeast Asia
  • 02 April 2014
Northstar enters Southeast Asia VC space

The Northstar Group, a Singapore-headquartered private equity firm with significant interests in Indonesia, is expanding its franchise to include venture capital. The VC unit is called Silicon Island, in reference to Singapore’s ambition to become a regional...

  • Venture
  • 26 March 2014
PE seeks post-election certainty in Indonesia – AVCJ Forum

Private equity investors are playing wait-and-see in Indonesia ahead of the country’s parliamentary and presidential elections this year, but they expect activity to rebound, in part driven by a more favorable economy and moderating valuations.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 21 March 2014
Kerogen enters PNG LNG space

Seven years after ExxonMobil began its feasibility study on commercializing gas resources in Papua New Guinea (PNG) through liquefied natural gas (LNG), the PNG LNG Project is poised to start delivering on its promise.

  • Expansion
  • 19 March 2014
Kerogen makes Asia oil and gas play, eyes Fund II

Kerogen Capital has invested A$30 million ($27 million) in Twinza Oil, which has oil and gas interests in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Thailand. The energy-focused GP is also said to be preparing to launch its next fund later in the year.

  • Industrials
  • 13 March 2014
L Capital buys majority stake in luxury restaurant operator

L Capital Asia, the private equity firm backed by luxury goods conglomerate LVMH, has bought a 51% stake in Ku Dé Ta Group, a restaurant and club operator with interests in Singapore and Thailand.

  • Consumer
  • 13 March 2014
Templeton reaches final close on fourth emerging markets fund

Franklin Templeton has reached a final close of more than $220 million on its latest emerging markets fund. The vehicle, which launched in March 2012 with a target of $300 million, has already made three investments.

  • Fundraising
  • 12 March 2014
Q&A: Creador's Brahmal Vasudevan

Creador is in the process of raising its second fund, which has a target of $250 million, to be deployed in Indonesia, Malaysia and India. CEO Brahmal Vasudevan explains where the firm is investing and why

  • GPs
  • 12 March 2014
Indonesia VC: Lucrative clicks
Indonesia VC: Lucrative clicks

E-commerce has emerged as the star of Indonesia’s expanding start-up space. Early-stage investors are scrambling to fill their shopping carts, but you have to pick the right spots and deploy the right resources

  • Venture
  • 12 March 2014
Indonesia macro: Tipping point?
Indonesia macro: Tipping point?

Indonesia appears to have weathered the worst of its recent economic storms, but the route towards long-term sustainable growth has yet to be mapped out. PE investment theses rely on sensible navigation

  • Investments
  • 12 March 2014
Beyond the tapering terror

Limited partners around the globe are now returning to private equity opportunities in developed Western markets, especially those of the US, a number of recent surveys indicate. Asian private equity, and Southeast Asia in particular, has fallen a few...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 March 2014
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