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EQT is offering investors a large “early bird” discount for its latest fund targeting the first close of €4.25 billion before July.

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CICC aims to complete the first round of fundraising this month for RMB5 billion to invest in domestic takeovers.

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Silver Lake has been named by HEC School of Management the top buyout firm most likely to outperform for investors over the next fund cycle.

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AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong said in New York “We are not focused on a private equity deal right now”.

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Carlyle has just closed a second round of fundraising at RMB3.2 billion for its Beijing yuan-denominated fund.

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3i Infotech will sell its US-based global billing and payments unit to Cerberus Capital for $137 million.

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Vietcombank, one of Vietnam’s biggest and oldest banks, appointed Credit Suisse to sell 20% of the bank to foreign investors.

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Chinese insurance intermediary CNinsure received a $982 million take-private proposal from a consortium led by its CEO and TPG.

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Primedia, a media company owned by KKR for 22 years, agreed to sell itself to TPG for $525 million.

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Bridgepoint sold a majority stake in environmental consultancy ERM to rival Charterhouse in a deal worth of about $950 million.

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CCPIB acquired a 36.9% interest in Mayflower partnership that owns a portfolio of 13 regional malls located in the US for $350 million.

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Carlyle and TPG consortium has hired a bank to bid for 25% stake in Malaysian lender RHB Capital for about $1.6 billion.

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Bidders including CD&R and BC Partners are set to bid for RAC, which Aviva bought for £1.1 billion in 2005.

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A consortium led by Temasek and including South Korea’s SWF paid about $3.5 billion in April for 70% stake in U.S. energy company Frac Tech.

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Blackstone and BC Partners are said to consider bidding for Com Hem AB, a Swedish cable company, for more than €2 billion.

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Yum! Brands offered to take Little Sheep Group private in a deal that values the operator of hotpot restaurants in China at $862 million.

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KKR, Carlyle, Cinven, Advent and TPG are in the running to buy Lafarge’s plaster activities.

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CVC will invest 4.96 billion pesos for a 15% stake in Rizal Commercial Banking, the fifth largest bank by assets in the Philippines.

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Bridgepoint and Paris-based Eurazeo have each invested €240 million in equity to buy real estate management company Foncia.