Venture capital firm Qiming Venture Partners has led a US$15 million Series A funding round for China-based Hangzhou Wacai Science, a mobile app developer for personal finance management. Existing shareholders venture capital firms IDG Venture Partners and CDH Investments also participated in the round. The company intends to use… Read More
India-based Jasper Infotech, which runs the online marketplace Snapdeal.com, has raised a US$133.8 million financing round led by existing investor global commerce and payments company eBay. Venture capital firms Kalaari Capital, Nexus Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Saama Capital, as well as Intel Corporation’s venture capital arm Intel… Read More
Tom Barry is the CEO and Founder of Zephyr Management, a global emerging markets investment manager that specializes in the creation and management of private equity and marketable securities funds. Tom discusses the rationale behind his firm’s investment strategy and candidly shares his views on what he sees as the… Read More
Asia-focused private equity firm Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) has sold its 41.7 percent stake in Indonesia-based airfreight and passenger services provider Cardig Aero Services (CAS) to Singapore Airport Terminal Services, a ground handling and in-flight catering service provider at Singapore Changi Airport, for IDR1.1 trillion (approximately US$93.5 million). Read More
A consortium of investors led by IDFC Alternatives, the alternative asset management vertical at infrastructure financing company IDFC, and Singaporean investment company Temasek Holdings have agreed to restructure their existing investment in India-based GMR Energy, part of industrial conglomerate GMR Group, by purchasing INR11.4 billion (approximately US$183.2 million) in… Read More
In keeping with our monitoring of issues in both emerging markets and the developed markets that so often shape reforms elsewhere, this tenth issue of the EMPEA Legal and Regulatory Bulletin looks at developments impacting investors in South Asia, the Middle East, China and Europe. Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe’s John… Read More
The Indian economy has been famously dubbed the elephant economy. Lately, the fabled elephant has unfortunately been bogged down by shackles. Criticism from the investor community suggests that India’s legal and regulatory systems have not kept pace with business and the requirements of an increasingly globalized economy. In response, the… Read More
Olympus Capital Asia Credit, the credit arm of private equity firm Olympus Capital Asia, and investment management firm Kilimanjaro Advisors, structured through Kilimanjaro Credit Fund, have agreed to provide structured debt financing to India-based Atria Convergence Technologies (ACT), a provider of information, communications and entertainment through internet protocol, broadband,… Read More
Although China remains an attractive destination for private equity investors, it has gained a reputation as a market where contracts are often treated more like vague notions than bona fide agreements. Kroll commissioned the Economist Intelligence Unit to carry out the Annual Global Fraud Survey, which found that fraud continues… Read More
Investment fund manager Triodos Investment Management, a subsidiary of Triodos Bank, has divested a six percent equity stake in Cambodia-based commercial bank ACLEDA Bank, which finances micro-, small- and medium-sized businesses. Structured through three separate funds managed by Triodos, the stake was sold to Japan-based financial services group ORIX… Read More
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