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Co-Stone leads $43m round for China biosynthesis player

Co-Stone Capital Management has led a CNY 300m (USD 43m) Series B round for Readline, a Shenzhen-based company that specialises in synthetic biology.

  • Greater China
  • 18 December 2022
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Australia’s Heal Partners closes debut fund on $137m

Australia’s Heal Partners, a health, education, and lifestyle-focused venture capital firm, has closed its first fund on AUD 200m (USD 137m). The target was AUD 100m.

  • Australasia
  • 18 December 2022
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US regulator gets access to Chinese audits

The threat of delisting that has haunted Chinese companies that trade on US exchanges appears to have receded after the US regulators announced they had gained full access to the audits of these companies for the first time.

  • Greater China
  • 18 December 2022
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Weekly digest - December 15 2022

  • Region
  • 15 December 2022
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TPG buys India's Poonawalla Housing Finance

TPG Capital Asia has agreed to acquire Poonawalla Housing Finance for a pre-money equity valuation of INR 39bn (USD 473m) and inject an additional INR 10bn to support growth.

  • South Asia
  • 15 December 2022
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China solar cell manufacturer raises $72m

Temasek Holdings, Sequoia Capital China, and IDG Capital have led a CNY500m (USD 72m) Series B investment in Chinese solar cell manufacturer GCL Photoelectric Materials.

  • Greater China
  • 15 December 2022
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PAG closes fifth credit fund on $2.6bn

PAG has closed its fifth pan-Asian private credit fund at the hard cap with USD 2.6bn. It is said to be the largest direct lending fund raised in the region to date.

  • Greater China
  • 15 December 2022
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2023 preview: Hard-tech

As China’s technology space has shifted toward more advanced domains of R&D, bubbles have formed and geopolitics have complicated investment. There is scope for some turnaround on these points

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Fundraising

Fundraising is difficult for all but the fortunate few private equity managers in Asia. GPs are delaying launches, shaking up strategies, and offering sweeteners; LPs are in no hurry to make commitments

  • Fundraising
  • 14 December 2022
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Q&A: CICC Capital’s Mengyang Yang

Mengyang Yang, an executive director and head of private equity in Hong Kong at CICC Capital, on China’s post-pandemic revival, plans for a flagship US dollar fund, and managing guidance funds

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Exits

IPOs and trade sales have been muted in 2022, but industry participants expect strategic investors to be more active in Asia next year, especially as valuations moderate. Increased secondary deal flow is also likely

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: India PE

India’s domestic growth story appears unobstructed, but some international investors could hold their fire. The local PE industry will not graduate to the next level without that foreign capital

  • South Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: China macro

Private equity is eager to re-engage with China as a sudden post-pandemic re-opening reminds investors focused on the country to expect the unexpected. A weak global picture could spoil the party

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Australia PE

Market pressures on Australian businesses, including an increasingly serious labour shortage, are a challenge and opportunity for domestic private equity. So is China, but in less discernible ways

  • Australasia
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Southeast Asia VC

Southeast Asia VC is in fair position to hobble through a global downturn and cooling appetite for all things tech despite controversial politics in the region’s largest market and a dicey IPO outlook

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Japan middle market

Confidence in Japan’s middle market is whipping up new deal flow, new funds, and new exit channels that will play out in 2023. This includes the possible reanimation of a dormant IPO market

  • North Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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China automotive chip company raises $43m

Indiemicro, a Chinese chip designer targeting the automotive industry has raised a CNY300m (USD 43m) round featuring semiconductor-focused Sunic Capital.

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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Q&A: Bain Capital’s David Gross-Loh

David Gross-Loh, a managing director and a founding member of the Asia business at Bain Capital, on expanding into Osaka, targeting large-cap carve-outs in Japan, and the availability of deal financing

  • North Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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Dalma Capital buys Singapore's Global CIO Office

Dalma Capital Group, a Dubai-headquartered alternative investment management platform, has agreed to buy The Global CIO Office, a Singapore-based outsourced CIO business that primarily serves family offices.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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2022 in review: End of the party?

Fundraising favours the few; deployment becomes progressively slower as investors agonise about valuations, macro prospects, and financing costs; sponsor-to-sponsor deals prop up exits

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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New Zealand's Partly gets $21m Series A

New Zealand’s Partly, a company that uses big data to source replacement parts for the global automotive industry, has raised a NZD 37m (USD 21m) Series A round led by UK-based Octopus Ventures.

  • Australasia
  • 14 December 2022
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Australia's Potentia pursues two technology take-privates

Australia-based specialist B2B technology investor Potentia Capital appears to be continuing its pursuit of two listed companies – Nitro Software and Tyro Payments – despite several rejections.

  • Australasia
  • 13 December 2022
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China semiconductor player Eswin Material raises $576m

Eswin Material, the integrated circuit manufacturing unit of Eswin Technology Group, has raised CNY 4bn(USD 576m)in Series C funding led by the New Materials Fund of China National Building Material.

  • Greater China
  • 13 December 2022
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Korea's Google-backed Mathpresso raises $70m

Seoul-based education technology start-up Mathpresso has closed its Series C round on USD 70m following an investment of undisclosed size last year from Google.

  • North Asia
  • 13 December 2022
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