EQT V and GIC Special Investments, the private equity arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), have agreed to sell Springer Science+Business Media to the private equity firm BC Partners. The company is being sold for a total enterprise value of around EUR3.3bn including a performance-related component,
Yichen Zhang, chairman and chief executive officer of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited, has been elected to the Emerging Markes Private Equity Association’s (EMPEA) board of directors. Zhang (pictured) founded CITIC Capital in 2002. Prior to CITIC Capital, he joined CITIC Group in 2000 as an executive director of CITIC
Middle Eastern private equity group Foursan Group has exited its investment in Al-Isra Education & Investment, a holding company that operates Al-Isra Private University, a Jordanian private university that provides graduate and undergraduate degrees to nearly 6,500 Jordanian and foreign students. Since Foursan invested in Al-Isra, the company grew
MIOX Corporation has secured a strategic investment from TEL Venture Capital, the corporate investment arm of Japanese semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer Tokyo Electron. This marks the first investment by an Asia-based investor in MIOX. The TEL investment complements grants awarded to MIOX by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sprott has entered into a joint venture agreement with CITICPE Hong Kong MGT Co Limited to set up an offshore global resource fund. “We are very pleased to be launching this fund with CITICPE HK, one of China’s leading alternative asset managers and we look forward to working together
Law firm K&L Gates has added Virginia Tam as a partner in the corporate and transactional practice and Sacha Cheong as counsel in the litigation and dispute resolution practice, both in the firm’s Hong Kong office. Additionally, Soheui Choe joins the firm’s Seoul office as counsel in the intellectual property practice.
Middle market investment bank Harris Williams has advised on the sale of Alma Lasers, a developer, manufacturer and provider of laser, light-based, radio-frequency and ultrasound devices for aesthetic and medical applications, to subsidiaries of Fosun International, a Chinese strategic buyer, for an enterprise value of USD220m. Harris Williams acted
Law firm Morrison & Foerster is representing Shanghai’s Fosun International in the USD3.5bn going-private transaction of Focus Media, a deal which closed on 23 May. Focus Media, Nasdaq-listed since 2005, is a multiplatform, digital media company and provides flat-panel digital advertising services on displays located in more than 100 cities in
China, Japan and India are paying more for quality European assets, bucking a trend of declining company valuations throughout the rest of the world, according to a report on global M&A trends. The EBITDA multiples paid by these countries for deals abroad have been rising over recent years, increasing
Major sovereign governments and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) in the Middle East are increasingly considering new private equity models for investment, according to the fourth annual Invesco Middle East Asset Management Study. Invesco’s study has again analysed sovereign revenues and defined the investment behaviours of major SWFs in the
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