Greenpark Capital, a global leader in mid-market private equity secondaries, has opened a new office in Hong Kong, to be headed by Chin Chin Teoh. Teoh, who will take the newly created role of Head of Asia, joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was Managing Director and

Consilia Partners, the European and Middle East based investment and turnaround firm, and Turnaround Asia (TAA), the China-based business transformation and turnaround consultancy, have formed a strategic joint venture to meet the need for a global transformation and turnaround management solution across Europe, Middle East & Asia. David Axon, CEO

Paris based IREIFS Partners Private Equity is re-opening its offices in Bangkok after a six year absence. Pat Collins, IREIFS Regional Director Asia Pacific based in Singapore says: “IREIFS has always had a strong belief in the growth of Thailand as an Investment destination. We are primarily a hotel and

Jersey Finance has welcomed the signing of a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) between Jersey and Hong Kong as another key step in growing business with the Far East. Signed by Jersey’s Chief Minister Senator Ian Gorst and Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Professor K C Chan,

Gordon Pan has been named as a managing partner of Baird Private Equity. Pan succeeds Paul Carbone, who recently joined the Pritzker Group. Pan has more than 20 years of finance and private equity experience, including the past seven years as a Partner with Baird Capital Partners and, before that,

Symphony International Holdings’ portfolio company, Minor International Pcl (MINT), has posted strong full year results for 2011. MINT saw year-on-year profits soar by 133% to 2,880 million baht, despite the disruption caused by some of the worst flooding on record in Thailand and the uncertain global economy.   The profit

Vistra Fund Services has launched Vistra Fund Services Asia Limited, to complement the group’s fund administration operations in Jersey and Luxembourg. The new operation, which is based in Hong Kong, will provide fund administration and associated services to fund managers throughout Asia. Rapid growth and acquisitions in this region by

JH Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity firm, has completed the sale of Australian skin care company Jurlique International to Pola Orbis for an enterprise value of AUD335m (USD358m), which represents approximately 3.8x Jurlique’s annual sales. JH Partners acquired Jurlique in mid-2006. JH Partners manages approximately USD1 billion in private

The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a private investment firm focused on emerging markets, has entered into definitive agreement with the CIMB Group (CIMB) to acquire a 60 per cent stake in CapAsia, a Singapore-based mid-market infrastructure private equity firm focused exclusively on non-BRIC Emerging Asia. CapAsia in total has raised over