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Bain, TPG’s Lilliput woes a warning on India investing

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 11:52 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

HONG KONG, May 18 (Reuters) - Last September, less than two weeks after an IPO plan was approved, the private equity owners of India's Lilliput Kidswear got a call that set off a chain of events that...

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Carlyle plans $1.25 bln Taiwan bank sale to Yuanta-sources

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 11:48 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

TAIPEI, May 18 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group and other major shareholders of Taiwan's Ta Chong Bank plan to sell the bank to Yuanta Financial in a deal worth up to T$37 billion...

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Kleiner Perkins raises $525 million fund

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 9:59 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17 (Reuters) - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said it had raised a $525 million fund, less than its previous comparable fund of $650 million, reflecting a school of thought in...

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MALAYSIA PRESS-Malaysia’s employees provident fund joins JCorp in buyout-The Star

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 9:12 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

---- PREVIOUS ITEMS Malaysia's AMMB posts record profit for fifth consecutive year - Business Times----

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UPDATE 1-Jewelry retailer Bidz.com to go private

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 5:52 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

May 17 (Reuters) - Online jewelry retailer BIDZ.com Inc said it will be taken private by Glendon Group Inc, valuing the company at about $14.3 million.

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CPPIB posts 2012 gains, eyes deals in Europe, Asia

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 2:00 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

* Canada fund's 6.6 pct return takes assets to C$161.6 bln

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UPDATE 3-Pinterest financing values company at $1.5 bln

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 1:43 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

* Other investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, FirstMark Capital

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UPDATE 3-3i promotes dealmaker to top job

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 1:35 pm. Filed under privateEquity.

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - British private equity firm 3i Group promoted its investment head Simon Borrows to be chief executive on Thursday, charging the former banker with turning around a business...

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UPDATE 3-Agilent to buy Denmark’s Dako for $2.2 bln

Posted by admin on 17 May 2012 11:50 am. Filed under privateEquity.

May 17 (Reuters) - Agilent Technologies Inc will buy Danish cancer diagnostics company Dako from Sweden-based private equity group EQT for $2.2 billion in its biggest ever deal, to expand into the...