Sharon Lim

MBK Partners, a North Asia-focused private equity manager, is competing with Goldman Sachs, Carlyle and KKR for Taiwan’s top cable TV operator in a transaction estimated to fetch about $1.4 billion.

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.

Carlyle’s Asian growth capital group is investing $27.5 million in a Chinese wooden flooring manufacturer and distributor, not long after making two separate investments in China and India.

Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia is pushing ahead with an investment in Korea at a time when a number of heavyweight US GPs are under scrutiny from the Korean authorities.

Prosecutors in Seoul have indicted the head of Warburg Pincus in Korea on charges of insider trading in LG Card, an investment from which the private equity firm exited in 2003.

Korean buyout fund Vogo Fund is poised to make an investment in BC Card, the country’s second largest credit card issuer, having signed an agreement with its largest shareholders.