Analysis
PEP powers up control
At first glance, Australian private equity major Pacific Equity Partners’ (PEP) determined takeover bid for Australian renewable energy company Energy Developments (ENE) – even though it has recently expanded its shareholding to more than 50% after buying...
Navis paints a pretty face with Alliance Cosmetics
Navis Capital will put its mark on yet another Southeast Asian consumer company as it takes a 70% controlling stake in Alliance Cosmetics Group.
Stimulus and response
AVCJ presents some more highlights of leading economists and market observers’ predictions for the year ahead.
KDB digs into Kumho
South Korea’s state-owned Korean Development Bank (KDB), will take a 50 % plus 1 share stake in Daewoo Engineering and Construction Co., for KRW2.9 trillion ($2.5 billion) through its private equity fund, under the workout program for the distressed...
Private equity activity freeze thaws in Asia
AVCJ focuses on LP views of the region’s attractions looking ahead into 2010
Anticlimax in Copenhagen
The long-awaited Copenhagen climate conference delivered much sound and fury – but few substantive results.
2010: A roaring Year of the Tiger?
2010 may deliver the hoped-for recovery, but no one is taking it for granted.
3i exits PCD Stores through Hong Kong IPO
Four years after an original investment of $31 million, 3i Group has exited its stake in PCD Stores, a luxury department store chain in China, through an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
China giants put their best fund forward
Amid unparalleled interest in the evolution of China’s domestic private equity environment, two major PRC financial institutions have announced progress in forming their own private equity funds.
Japan's monster new LP
The tentative merger of Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co. and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., will power up their private equity allocations in Japan after both banks consolidate assets to create the largest trust bank in Japan.
ILPA principles are emerging winners
Leading development finance institutions have lined up to endorse the Private Equity Principles recently promulgated by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) – a strong signal for GPs and advisors across Asia Pacific that the principles...
CIC at the Apax?
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) has followed up on its earlier and sometimes ill-starred moves into leading private equity players like the Blackstone Group with an innovatively-structured two-handed investment into London-headquartered Apax Partners....
LPs lose love for private equity?
The winter 2009-10 edition of the Coller Capital Global Private Equity Barometer suggests that international investors’ perceptions of private equity as an asset class have taken a sharp lurch downwards since the global financial crisis broke.