Northern Trust is expanding its fund administration and custody capabilities to support locally domiciled Hong Kong funds, including exchange-traded funds, as well as other regional investment funds. For the newly launched service, Northern Trust will provide global sub-custody and fund administration services, including fund accounting and shareholder services, to
Investment firm KKR has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Alliance Tire Group (ATG) from an affiliate of Warburg Pincus. Yogesh Mahansaria, founder of ATG, will continue to maintain an ownership stake in the company and partner with KKR to continue to grow the business.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Shusaku Minoda to chairman of KKR Japan from his position as managing director and chief executive officer. In addition, Hirofumi Hirano has been hired as the new managing director and chief executive officer of KKR Japan. Hirano joins KKR from AlixPartners Asia where he
Indian private equity investments in Q1 2013 were recorded at USD1.8bn, a quarter less than the USD2.45bn worth of investments recorded during the corresponding period last year, according to VCCEdge’s latest Quarterly Deal Report. Deal volume declined by a third as well, falling from 186 deals to 123 deals.
Private equity specialist Advent International has opened an office in Shanghai, China. The office is led by Filippo de Vecchi, managing director and co-head of Greater China, and Andrew Li, principal and co-head of Greater China. Advent China will provide local market support to existing global portfolio companies
Capital Dynamics, a private asset manager, and Diligence Capital, a China-based RMB fund of funds manager, have established a strategic cooperation to capture regional investment opportunities on behalf of China’s rapidly growing pool of institutional investors and Capital Dynamics’ global investor base. Capital Dynamics will formally adopt Diligence Capital’s
The Palo Alto office of law firm K&L Gates has appointed Linda Zhou as a partner in the emerging growth and venture capital practice. Zhou joins K&L Gates from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian. Along with venture capital investors and firms, Zhou advises start-up, emerging growth, and
Chinese distressed debt and special situation investments specialist Shoreline Capital has closed its second fund at USD303m. The fund significantly surpassed the size of Shoreline’s first fund, which secured USD178.2m of commitments in 2008. The firm has already invested over one third of the new fund’s committed capital.
Pluribus Networks, a specialist in hardware-accelerated network virtualisation for private and public cloud data centres, has secured investment form China Broadband Capital (CBC) in its Series C funding round. This brings the total amount raised to date to over USD44m from investors including Menlo Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and
The proportional representation of women in high-level private equity roles is highest at Asia-based firms, according to a report from Preqin, with an average of 12.8 per cent of senior roles held by women at firms based in this region as of February 2013. This is higher than in North
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