Asia Pacific private equity investor Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA) has sold a 6.8 percent stake in Sihuan Pharmaceutical Holdings, a China-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, along with the company’s management. The shareholders sold 100 million and 250 million shares, respectively, for a total sell-off of 350 million shares. Through… Read More
Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton Investments, has invested in Uruguay-based pharmaceutical and medical products supplier Grupo Bioerix. Financial details of the transaction, which was structured through Darby Latin American Mezzanine Fund II, were not disclosed. Bioerix imports and distributes technology, equipment and supplies for… Read More
Global growth markets investor The Abraaj Group has announced an investment in Morocco-based manufacturer and marketer of pharmaceutical products Steripharma. The company intends to use the capital injection to build a new plant and to develop the company’s exports, primarily to the private sector of North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has completed an investment in China-based health care provider Amcare Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Amcare, which previously received an RMB250 million (approximately US$40 million) investment in 2011 from investment banking and research service company China International Capital Corp., currently operates three hospitals and… Read More
Private equity investment manager Lombard Investments has announced a final close on its fourth Asia fund, Lombard Asia IV, hard-capped at US$350 million. The oversubscribed fund reached a first close in September 2012 with US$200 million in capital commitments. Investors in the fund, which will largely focus on growth… Read More
Pearl Capital Partners (PCP), an East Africa-focused agriculture investment firm, and philanthropic foundation Voxtra have completed a joint investment in Uganda-based poultry company Biyinzika Enterprises. The transaction was structured through PCP’s African Agricultural Capital Fund and the Voxtra East Africa Agribusiness Fund. Biyinzika produces day-old chicks for small-scale and… Read More
Turkey-focused private equity investment firm TRPE Capital has announced the first close of TRPE Venture Partners Fund I. With a final target of US$25 million, the fund, which is expected close in 2014, will invest in Turkey-based seed and early stage information and communications technology companies. In recognition of… Read More
Emerging markets fund manager LeapFrog Investments has announced the first close of its second fund at US$204 million. LeapFrog Fund II will target equity investments of up to US$60 million in companies that provide financial services to emerging consumers and will continue to focus on LeapFrog’s priority markets of… Read More
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek and early stage venture capital firm DCM, among other unnamed investors, have participated in a US$60 million Series D financing round in Tuniu.com, an online booking platform targeting the leisure travel market. Tuniu.com previously received a Series A round of funding from venture firm… Read More
Global emerging markets investor Capital International Private Equity Funds (CIPEF) has invested US$250 million in Brazil-based QGOG Constellation, a provider of offshore and onshore oil and gas contract drilling. The Queiroz Galvão family, the controlling shareholder of QGOG Constellation, will contribute another US$50 million by mid-September, bringing the total… Read More
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