05-03-2021 08:00
Named as one of Vietnam’s SME 100 Fast Moving Companies, Singapore-based NPX Point Avenue, an education technology company focused on the fast-growing K-12 private international school market and K-12 after school training market, recently closed $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital.
04-03-2021 08:00
Lodgis Hospitality – the investment partnership between the leading global private equity firm Warburg Pincus and Vietnam’s leading investment manager, VinaCapital – is focused on Vietnam’s tourism industry, with the strategic aim of supporting the development of Vietnam as an international tourism destination by delivering a range of high-quality hospitality real estate developments and services.
30-11-2020 08:55
Asia-Pacific and the continent as a whole has been and continues to attract a lot of foreign investment, having cemented its position as the region with the highest growth rates in the world, drawing in foreign investors and private equity funds by the droves.
27-10-2020 19:05
Dealmaking in the private sector is expected to grow as more private equity funds target the Vietnamese market.
05-10-2020 13:19
The premier Asia-focused independent private equity investment firm, Queen Capital International Limited, signed an MoU with Lee&Lee JSC and Thien Phu Energy Investment JSC for the joint development of two wind farms with a total installed capacity of up to 560MW.
07-05-2020 08:00
Gaw NP Industrial, the latest development in Vietnam funded by global real estate private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners, is actively pushing its investment process in order to be operational in the first quarter of 2021.
17-03-2020 16:52
Danish private equity company Penm Partners is seeing a sluggish fundraising process for its fifth fund as the firm encountered choppy waters due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
23-12-2019 16:38
BASF and an affiliate of Lone Star, a global private equity firm, signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of BASF’s Construction Chemicals business.
02-07-2019 09:56
During the development journey of a private company, there will be points when private equity funding is critical for the company to grow and prosper. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Chau, senior manager of transaction advisory services at Grant Thornton Vietnam, outlines the factors involved in ensuring both investors and investees are on the same page when working together.
28-06-2019 14:58
New York-based international private equity firm Warburg Pincus has made the final close for its equity fund in China-Southeast Asia and Vietnam (China – SEA II). The equity fund attracted $4.25 billion investment from Warburg Pincus' current funds as well as new investors.
24-06-2019 09:15
Maintaining, or returning to, sustainable profitable growth is always a huge challenge for any business, with many of them initiating complex transformation programmes to achieve this goal. Unfortunately, many of these initiatives often fail to deliver the expected benefits. One of the primary reasons for these failures is a lack of attention to the upside sources of value.
15-06-2019 07:27
Navis Capital Partners (Navis), an Asia-based private equity firm, has completed an investment in Thanh Thanh Cong Education JSC (TTCE), a high-quality Vietnamese private education platform operating in southern Vietnam.
24-05-2019 11:15
Vietnam is among top three ASEAN countries attracting Private Equity (PE) investment in term of deal value, according to a report just released by the auditing and business consulting firm Grant Thornton.
23-05-2019 00:00
The Vietnamese economy possesses a lot of potential for foreign investment in a range of fields such as e-commerce, finance and banking, logistics, healthcare, education, and consumption, Jeff Olson, managing partner in Vietnam at Hogan Lovells, told the Private Equity & Venture Forum 2019 organised by Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) in Ho Chi Minh City on May 23.
15-03-2019 08:00
What PE funds can bring to Vietnam businesses are not only about providing capital, but also about other aspects of operation, including corporate governance, business ideas, relationship and experience.