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GGV receives commitments of $509m for fund IV

GGV Capital, the US and China-focused venture capital investor, has raised $508.9 million for its fourth fund. In addition to the main fund, the VC firm has attracted $10.8 million for a side vehicle known as GGV Capital IV Entrepreneurs Fund.

  • Fundraising
  • 20 August 2012
Origo secures $60m for China cleantech fund, targets first close by year end

Origo Partners, a London-listed private equity investor focused exclusively on China, has received $60 million in commitments for a $200 million fund targeting cleantech companies.

  • Fundraising
  • 17 August 2012
Peepul Capital makes two investments in Chennai

Peepul Capital, an India-focused private equity firm, has invested $15-25 million each in two Chennai-based companies - Consul Consolidated, a power solution company, and Cura Healthcare, a radiology equipment maker. Both investments were channeled from...

  • South Asia
  • 17 August 2012
Mercer boosts Asia wealth management team

Mercer has appointed Edmund Teo to lead its wealth management team in Asia, providing research, advisory and portfolio management services to banks, insurers and other financial services organizations in the region. Pierre DeGagne also joins as a principal...

  • People
  • 17 August 2012
Middletons and K&L Gates mull merger

Australian law firm Middletons is in discussions with global player K&L Gates about a potential merger. It would create a firm of more than 2,000 lawyers in 45 offices throughout Australia, Asia, and the Middle East, the Americas and Europe.

  • Australasia
  • 17 August 2012
STIC-led group preferred bidder for Korean weapons manufacturer

A consortium formed by South Korean private equity firm STIC Investments and brokerage Hana Daetoo Securities has been selected as the preferred bidder for a stake in South Korea's LIG Nex1. The weapons manufacturer is offloading a 49% interest worth...

  • North Asia
  • 17 August 2012
Adveq establishes third Asia office

Adveq has opened an office in Hong Kong, its third in the region. The move comes after the asset manager announced plans in January to increase its investment in China to RMB3.5 billion ($554 million) over the next two years.

  • LPs
  • 16 August 2012
Lok Capital ups stake in Ujjivan MFI, Bellwether exits

Lok Capital has reportedly upped its stake in India’s Ujjivan Microfinance by acquiring the 7% held by microfinance investor Bellwether. Another shareholder is set to exit its stake by the end of August.

  • Financials
  • 16 August 2012
MBK agrees $1.1b deal for Korea’s Woongjin Coway

MBK Partners has agreed to pay KRW1.1 trillion ($1.1 billion) for a 31% stake in Woongjin Coway, the water purifier business of South Korean conglomerate Woongjin Holdings. It is the country’s joint-largest private equity transaction this year and brings...

  • Buyouts
  • 16 August 2012
China slowdown hampers emerging markets fundraising, investment

Fundraising by private equity firms focused on emerging markets reached $17.2 billion in the first six months of 2012, or nearly half of the $38.5 billion raised in 2011 as a whole, with a spike in emerging Europe counterbalancing a slowdown in China....

  • Fundraising
  • 16 August 2012
VC firm leads $6m App Annie Series B round

App Annie, the service provider of app store analytics and market intelligence for the global app economy, has raised $6 million in Series B financing led by Greycroft Partners. China’s IDG Capital Partners, the lead investor in the previous funding...

  • Greater China
  • 16 August 2012
Fosun expresses support for Focus Media take-private

China's Fosun International, Focus Media’s second-largest shareholder, with a 17.2% stake, said the recent take-private proposal for the Shanghai-based advertising company by a private equity consortium is an attractive option for shareholders. Fosun’s...

  • Greater China
  • 16 August 2012
General Atlantic exits Infotech Enterprises for $36m

General Atlantic Partners – through its entity GA Global Investments – has sold 11.7 million shares, or a 10.48% stake, in Infotech Enterprises to Cyprus-based company Gagil FDI for INR2.01 billion ($36.2 million).

  • South Asia
  • 15 August 2012
FountainVest backs LJ International’s privatization

Fountainvest Partners, the Shanghai-based private equity fund founded by former Goldman Sachs and Temasek dealmaker Frank Tang, has teamed up with Yu-Chuan Yih, CEO of Nasdaq-listed jeweler LJ International, to take the company private.

  • Greater China
  • 15 August 2012
Mengniu in talks to buy KKR-backed Modern Dairy - report

Hong Kong-listed China Mengniu Dairy, the country’s largest dairy producer, has reportedly held talks to acquire China Modern Dairy, the raw milk supplier in which KKR Asia Fund owns 24%.

  • Greater China
  • 15 August 2012
Goldman sells Japanese contractor for $636m

Goldman Sachs has sold Japanese contractor Fujita Corp to local home builder Daiwa House Industry for JPY50 billion ($636 million), representing an exit from one of its longest investments in the country.

  • Exits
  • 15 August 2012
Quadrant and Ironbridge complete Australian retail buyout

Australian private equity groups Quadrant Private Equity and Ironbridge Capital have realized a buyout of specialized retail businesses Super A-Mart and Barbeques Galore.

  • Australasia
  • 15 August 2012
Carlyle picks up 14% of Meinian Onehealth

Global private equity major The Carlyle Group has acquired a 13.5% stake in Meinian Onehealth Healthcare, the largest private provider of preventive healthcare check-up services in China.

  • Healthcare
  • 15 August 2012
Clove Capital achieves over 20x from Energy Best exit

Clove Capital has achieved a cash multiple of more than 20x through its divestment of Philippines-based oil company Energy Best to Peak Oil and Gas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Raisama Energy.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 August 2012
Goldman, NEA invest in India’s Nova Medical Centers

Goldman Sachs and New Enterprise Associates (NEA) have invested INR 3 billion ($54 million) in Nova Medical Centers, an Indian surgical care and fertility clinics company. The investments will be used to expand the company's specialty surgery and fertility...

  • South Asia
  • 14 August 2012
PCCW to invest $25m in Vision Knight Capital

PCCW, Hong Kong’s biggest telecommunications operator, said in a statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it may invest as much as $25 million in Vision Knight Capital, a private equity fund co-founded by David Wei, former CEO of Alibaba.com.

  • Greater China
  • 14 August 2012
Focus Media receives $3.5b buyout offer from PE players

US-listed Focus Media has received a $3.5 billion offer from its chief executive and a group of private equity giants to take the company private. If the deal goes through, the leveraged buyout could be China's largest, and Focus Media could be the largest...

  • Greater China
  • 14 August 2012
Blackstone offers Chinese version of website

Visitors to global buyout giant The Blackstone Group’s website will now be able to access content in Chinese, as well as in English and Japanese.

  • Greater China
  • 14 August 2012
SBI, Macquarie pump $150m into Ashoka Buildcon unit

Two private equity funds managed jointly by State Bank of India and Macquarie Bank of Australia have agreed to invest $150 million in the road construction division of Indian roads and bridges operator Ashoka Buildcon.

  • Infrastructure
  • 14 August 2012
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