Sharon Lim

Japan’s Nomura Principal Finance and CVC Asia Pacific are participating in the management buyout of a leading family restaurant operator – hailed as Japan’s largest management buyout to date.

With an eye on cross-border opportunities, AIM-listed China-focused merchant bank London Asia is expanding operations to Vietnam and Mongolia, and raising new country-dedicated funds.

The family office investing on behalf of Duty Free Shoppers founder Robert Miller is offering private equity fund management services to third parties in response to rising demand for opportunities in Asia Pacific.

Australia-listed investment and advisory firm Babcock & Brown has acquired NRG Energy’s South Australia power assets (NRG Flinders) for A$317 million.

Vietnam-focused Mekong Capital has closed a new private equity fund at $50 million, drawing more interest from private investors than it did with its maiden fund.

The Singapore government’s investment arm has invested in eMobile, a subsidiary of Japanese broadband operator eAccess, in a transaction that marks its largest to dare in Japan.

In response to a proposed tender offer, the private equity arm of Japan’s Nomura Holdings is selling part of its stake in Resort Solutions, a property manager previously known as Misawa Resort.

The manager of the largest pan-Asian private equity fund is to acquire a 30 percent stake for a reported $623 million in China-listed Shandong Chenming Paper Holdings.

Private equity firm Newbridge Capital has signed an agreement to invest as much as $200 million in a liquefied natural gas project in Xinjiang, a north-western province of China.

As part of a hiring spree aimed at expanding its Asian corporate finance business, Macquarie has appointed Stephen Pazzina, the former head of leveraged finance at Dutch bank ABN Amro in Hong Kong.