January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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December 14, 2011
Electricity of Vietnam's debt-to-equity ratio is not safe, according to the Ministry of Investment and Planning. Electricity of Vietnam has a debt-to-equity ratio of 4.25, much higher than the average 1.98Â for the country’s state-owned enterprises, news web site VnExpress reported Saturday, citing the Ministry of Investment and Planning. The report said that the high ratio [...]
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December 3, 2011
Real estate has regained the top spot as the most attractive sector for private equity investment, Grant Thornton says. Private equity investors’ optimism in the Vietnamese economy has dropped sharply as they continue to worry about inflation, high interest rates and a slowdown in domestic growth, according to Grant Thornton. Negative sentiment toward the economy [...]
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April 17, 2011
KKR & Co. agreed to pay US$159 million for a stake in Vietnamese fish sauce maker Masan Consumer Corp. in the largest private-equity investment in the country. KKR, based in New York, will buy 10 percent of Masan Consumer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday. It is KKR’s first investment in [...]
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February 1, 2010
Overall merger and acquisition values and volumes appear to have returned to a growth path in 2009’s fourth quarter giving grounds for optimism for 2010, writes an advisory partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam. Major Vietnamese conglomerates are growingly removing smaller rivals through M&A deals.LookAtVietnam – A slow start, but a strong finish to the year. Overall [...]
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December 27, 2009
Commercial banks have rejected claims that they are making huge profits, saying they even earn less than companies in other sectors, according to a report by local newswire VnExpress. LookAtVietnam – Commercial banks have rejected claims that they are making huge profits, saying they even earn less than companies in other sectors, according to a [...]
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December 26, 2009
Commercial banks have rejected claims that they are making huge profits, saying they even earn less than companies in other sectors, according to a report by local newswire VnExpress. Hanoi-based Techcombank, for instance, is set to post a full year profits of more than VND2.2 trillion (US$120 million) while the figure for Vietnam Maritime Joint [...]
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November 23, 2009
Private equity investors have been looking towards Vietnam with more confidence as a survey on private equity conducted by Grant Thornton Vietnam has revealed. VietNamNet Bridge – Private equity investors have been looking towards Viet Nam with more confidence as a November 2009 Survey on private equity in Viet Nam conducted by Grant Thornton Viet [...]
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August 17, 2009
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Vietnamâs first exchange-traded fund listed in the US stock market rose in debut trading as foreign investors sought to tap into a rally that has made the VNindex the eighth-best performer in the world. The Market Vectors Vietnam ETF rose 4.1 percent to US$26.02 [...]
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August 17, 2009
Investors lured by healthier stock markets and private equity firms eager to unload stakes in their portfolio companies are setting the stage for the return of billion-dollar-sized initial public offerings to the US. The size of several recent deals and new IPO applications has grown larger than what has been typical in the past year, [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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