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Domestic funds take 60% of PE deals

Domestic investors took a 60 percent share in the volume and value of private equity deals in China last year, said a report released yesterday.

In 2011 there were 173 PE deals worth a record US$15.2 billion sealed in China, Bain & Co said in the report.

It revealed that domestic investors comprised 60 percent of the deals, surpassing foreign investors for the first time, said the report, which tracked PE investments between 2000 and 2011 by foreign and Chinese investors.

The report showed that the value of the domestic funds doubled to 44 percent last year from 2010 and is catching up fast with the value of foreign deals. About 70 percent of the PE funds in China were in yuan and the rest in US dollar, the report added.

"We find that China, in spite of a downturn, remains a potent economic engine with significant capital needs that cannot be met in the public markets," said Vinit Bhatia, partner and head of Bain China's private equity practice. "As this dynamic continues to play out, we expect to see the continued rise in 2012 of domestically-led funds providing primarily growth capital for more and larger deals."



 

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