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The Carlyle Group

Strained relations: Foreign PE and financial services
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

  • Financials
  • 10 April 2013
Carlyle passes $1b mark on fourth Asia buyout fund

The Carlyle Group has raised more than $1 billion for its fourth Asia buyout fund, having reached a first close of $700 million last December, according to sources familiar with the situation. The private equity firm is targeting a final close of $3.5...

  • Greater China
  • 08 April 2013
Carlyle exits Japan's Broadleaf through IPO

The Carlyle Group has exited its majority stake in Japanese software company Broadleaf though an IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

  • Exits
  • 25 March 2013
Strong demand for Carlyle-backed Repco Home Finance IPO - update

The public issue of Repco Home Finance (RHF), which is backed by The Carlyle Group, Wolfensohn Capital Partners and Creador, was over-subscribed on its final day on Friday.

  • South Asia
  • 18 March 2013
AVCJ at 25: X.D. Yang of The Carlyle Group

X.D. Yang, managing director and co-head of Carlyle Asia Partners, joined the buyout firm as it sought to up its game in China. A hugely successful insurance investment remains the landmark deal, but he expects to see more

  • Greater China
  • 15 March 2013
AVCJ at 25: Michael B. Kim of MBK Partners

Michael B. Kim, founding partner of MBK Partners, left The Carlyle Group in 2005 to set up his own private equity firm. The time was right, the capital was available, and there was a desire to become more local

  • People
  • 15 March 2013
Carlyle-backed Repco Home Finance launches IPO

Repco Home Finance (RHF), which is backed by The Carlyle Group, Wolfensohn Capital Partners and Creador, launched its IPO on Wednesday, seeking to raise INR2.7 billion ($49 million).

  • South Asia
  • 15 March 2013
PE, strategics bid for Thai Life Insurance stake – report

A clutch of private equity firms and strategic investors have reportedly entered the bidding for a 20% stake in Thai Life Insurance, with the deal expected to reach around $500 million.

  • Financials
  • 13 March 2013
PE firms call for limit on Japan's government-backed funds

KKR, The Carlyle Croup and Bain Capital are part of a group of private equity firms urging the Japanese government to rein in its state-backed funds.

  • North Asia
  • 11 March 2013
7 Days board agrees to PE-backed buyout

Chinese budget hotel chain 7 Days Group has accepted a take-private offer from its co-chairmen and three private equity investors that values the company at approximately $688 million. Two PE firms, The Carlyle Group and Sequoia Capital, were initially...

  • Buyouts
  • 01 March 2013
Carlyle-backed China Fishery in $277m Peruvian deal

China Fishery, an industrial fishing company part-owned by The Carlyle Group, will pay $555.8 million for Peruvian counterpart Copeinca. The acquisition will make China Fishery the largest player in the world’s largest market by volume for fishmeal and...

  • Industrials
  • 28 February 2013
Carlyle upbeat on Japan, expects to launch new fund in 2013

The Carlyle Group says it has already begun preliminary talks with investors for a third Japan fund, and remains upbeat about opportunities in the country's buyout space.

  • North Asia
  • 25 February 2013
Carlyle to make partial exit with Broadleaf IPO

The Carlyle Group is set to exit the majority of its stake in Broadleaf following the Japanese company's announcement that it would seek to raise up to JPY23.3 billion ($248.37 million) through an IPO.

  • North Asia
  • 18 February 2013
Carlyle exits China Pacific with $4b profit

As a private equity investment, China Pacific Insurance stood out from the beginning. When The Carlyle Group paid approximately $400 million for a 24.98% stake in the firm’s life insurance subsidiary in 2005, it was comfortably the largest PE deal in...

  • Exits
  • 16 January 2013
Carlyle sees return on capsule innovation

Gelatin has been used to produce two-piece drug capsules for nearly 100 years, largely thanks to its ability to dissolve easily and be manufactured to a uniform thickness. The problem is that the manufacturing technique has never been all that kosher,...

  • North Asia
  • 09 January 2013
Carlyle completes China Pacific exit, takes total sales value past $5b

The Carlyle Group has completed what is said to be its largest-ever cash exit globally, selling the last of its interest in China Pacific Insurance for $796 million. The private equity firm has accumulated more than $5 billion through a series of block...

  • Exits
  • 08 January 2013
Warbug Pincus to exit India's WNS Global – report

Warburg Pincus is reportedly in talks with The Carlyle Group, KKR and Baring Private Equity Partners India to sell its 29% stake in business process outsourcing (BPO) firm WNS Global.

  • South Asia
  • 07 January 2013
Carlyle exits Japan's Qualicaps to Mitsubishi Chemical

The Carlyle Group has exited its holding in Qualicaps, a supplier of pharma-grade capsules, to Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings for JPY55.8billion ($639 million).

  • Exits
  • 03 January 2013
Carlyle relists Chimney, completes partial exit

The Carlyle Group has completed a partial exit from Japanese restaurant chain Chimney having relisted the company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange three years after taking it private. It is the private equity firm’s first IPO in Japan this year, having abandoned...

  • Exits
  • 20 December 2012
Focus Media agrees to $3.7b PE-backed buyout

Chinese advertising company Focus Media has agreed to a $3.7 billion management buyout backed by a consortium of private equity firms. It is by some distance China’s largest-ever buyout transaction and is only surpassed in the broader private equity investment...

  • Consumer
  • 20 December 2012
Carlyle plans partial exit from Kaisa – report

The Carlyle Group is reportedly selling part of its holding in Hong Kong-listed Chinese real estate developer Kaisa Group for up to $67 million.

  • Real estate
  • 13 December 2012
GPs see more secondary deals, stress entrepreneur alignment – AVCJ India Forum

The Indian private equity industry is now diversifying its exit channels in the light of a conspicuous lack of public market deals, GPs told the AVCJ India Forum. Secondary transactions could be an alternative, but alignments with entrepreneurs is the...

  • Exits
  • 07 December 2012
Ex-Carlyle Southeast Asia head joins CIMB

The former Southeast Asia head of The Carlyle Group, Anand Balasubrahmanyan, has joined Malaysia's CIMB Group, where he will have responsibility for the firm's private equity products.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 November 2012
India Infoline fund invests $20m in Gurgaon, Mumbai projects

India Infoline (IIFL) has invested INR1.1billion ($20 million) in two residential projects in Mumbai and Gurgaon, through its IIFL Domestic Series I fund.

  • Real estate
  • 26 November 2012
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