Bridge, a financial services company focused on extending access to finance to customers in rural Philippines, has received a US$24 million investment from Accion, a global non-profit microfinance organization, development finance institutions FMO and DEG, Bamboo Finance, a global private equity firm specializing in microfinance, and Paul Kocourek, Bridge’s… Read More
Mining-focused private equity firm Resource Capital Funds has invested in Brazilian calcium carbonate producer Provale. Provale plans to use part of the invested capital to build two new production plants. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More
U.S.-based venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Matrix Partners have invested US$10 million in Series B financing in Beisen, a Chinese supplier of human resources testing tools and services. Beisen has developed a cloud-based platform offering integrated recruitment, evaluation and talent management services. The funding is intended for additional… Read More
Global private equity investment group Apax Partners has sold a 3.88 percent stake in Indian hospital operator Apollo Hospitals Enterprise to investment management firm Oppenheimer Funds for INR4.45 billion (approximately US$83 million). The transaction took place through a bulk share sale on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock… Read More
AID Capital Partners, a China-based private equity firm, has purchased the Hong Kong and Singapore operations of U.K.-based music retailer HMV Group. AID acquired six retail stores and an e-commerce outlet in Hong Kong and two stores in Singapore, along with licenses in China, Taiwan and Macau. Financial details… Read More
The African Agriculture Fund (AAF), a private equity fund managed by Sub-Saharan Africa-focused fund manager Phatisa, has invested in Continental Beverage Company (CBC), a Côte D’Ivoire-based bottler and distributor of mineral water. CBC, a wholly owned subsidiary of West and Central African conglomerate The Teylium Group, markets the Olgane… Read More
A consortium of investors including Northstar Pacific Partners, the Indonesia-focused private equity affiliate of U.S.-based global private investment firm TPG, and businessman Garibaldi Thohir have reportedly purchased Indonesian telecommunications company Hutchison 3 Indonesia from Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Read More
Brazil-focused alternative investment company GP Investments has invested BRL100 million (approximately US$50.4 million) in Empresa Brasileira de Agregados Minerais (EBAM), a Brazilian mining company and producer of mineral aggregates. GP Investments structured the transaction through Basel Participações, a holding company under its GP Capital Partners V private equity fund. Read More
CLSA Capital Partners, the alternative asset management arm of Hong Kong-based brokerage CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers have invested US$10 million in Chinese water membrane manufacturing company Scinor Water Limited. CLSA structured the transaction through its Clean Resources Asia Growth Fund private equity… Read More
Indian private equity firm ChrysCapital has invested INR1.2 billion (approximately US$22.1 million) in Indian non-banking finance company Au Financiers for a 10 percent stake. ChrysCapital acquired 7 percent from Indian private equity firm Motilal Oswal Private Equity and the remaining 3 percent from the company’s founders, the Agarwal family. Read More
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