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(Reuters) -- India's Manappuram Finance has received final approval from the Reserve Bank of India for Bain Capital to acquire joint control and up to 41.66% of the company's equity and convertible instruments, the non-bank lender said on Saturday. [1]

TOKYO -- York Holdings, a group of Seven & i Holdings' non-convenience store companies, has been acquired by U.S.-based private equity firm Bain Capital, it announced at a strategy briefing Wednesday. [2]

HANOI -- Bain Capital has struck its first deal in Vietnam by investing at least $200 million in the conglomerate Masan Group, according to an announcement. DealStreetAsiaVietnam's Masan Group wins at least $200m from Bain Capital U.S. [3]

TOKYO -- U.S. private equity firm KKR on Monday said it asked Fuji Soft to initiate a court filing to stop fellow American investment fund Bain Capital from using confidential information amid a bidding war to acquire the Japanese software company. (confirmed by 2 sources) [4]

TOKYO -- Japanese systems developer Fuji Soft has rejected U.S. investor Bain Capital's new, higher takeover offer, in the latest twist in a closely watched bidding war between two private equity groups. [5]

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Group has granted a first-refusal right to U.S. investment fund Bain Capital for the purchase of its pharmaceutical subsidiary Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Nikkei has learned. [6]

TOKYO -- U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital on Monday withdrew its planned bid to take over Japan's Fuji Soft, ending a battle to acquire the systems developer that had been raging with rival investor KKR for more than five months. (confirmed by 2 sources) [7]

TOKYO -- The jockeying to acquire Fuji Soft has exposed a hole in Japanese tender offer regulations that has allowed Bain Capital to vie with fellow U.S.-based private equity firm KKR without going through the same formal review process. [8]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2026-02-15 · 75% match

Indian lender Manappuram gets nod for Bain Capital to take joint control

(Reuters) -- India's Manappuram Finance has received final approval from the Reserve Bank of India for Bain Capital to acquire joint control and up to 41.66% of the company's equity and convertible instruments, the non-bank lender said on Saturday.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-09-04 · 75% match

Seven & i noncore units get new start under Bain

TOKYO -- York Holdings, a group of Seven & i Holdings' non-convenience store companies, has been acquired by U.S.-based private equity firm Bain Capital, it announced at a strategy briefing Wednesday.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-10-03 · 75% match

Vietnam's Masan Group wins at least $200m from Bain Capital

HANOI -- Bain Capital has struck its first deal in Vietnam by investing at least $200 million in the conglomerate Masan Group, according to an announcement. DealStreetAsiaVietnam's Masan Group wins at least $200m from Bain Capital U.S.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-01-07 · 75% match

KKR urges Fuji Soft to seek court order against rival bidder Bain

TOKYO -- U.S. private equity firm KKR on Monday said it asked Fuji Soft to initiate a court filing to stop fellow American investment fund Bain Capital from using confidential information amid a bidding war to acquire the Japanese software company.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-12-18 · 75% match

Fuji Soft opposes Bain's sweetened takeover offer

TOKYO -- Japanese systems developer Fuji Soft has rejected U.S. investor Bain Capital's new, higher takeover offer, in the latest twist in a closely watched bidding war between two private equity groups.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-01-20 · 75% match

Mitsubishi Chemical to negotiate with Bain to sell drug unit

TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Chemical Group has granted a first-refusal right to U.S. investment fund Bain Capital for the purchase of its pharmaceutical subsidiary Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, Nikkei has learned.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-02-17 · 75% match

Bain Capital withdraws from battle with KKR for Japan's Fuji Soft

TOKYO -- U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital on Monday withdrew its planned bid to take over Japan's Fuji Soft, ending a battle to acquire the systems developer that had been raging with rival investor KKR for more than five months.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2025-02-08 · 75% match

KKR-Bain bidding war over Japan's Fuji Soft highlights legal loophole

TOKYO -- The jockeying to acquire Fuji Soft has exposed a hole in Japanese tender offer regulations that has allowed Bain Capital to vie with fellow U.S.-based private equity firm KKR without going through the same formal review process.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-05-09 · 75% match

Carlyle, Bain offer to buy Olympus' scientific instruments unit

TOKYO -- U.S. private equity firms, including Carlyle Group and Bain Capital, have tendered bids for Olympus' scientific instruments business, Nikkei has learned, in a transaction that could be worth as much as 200 billion yen ($1.5 billion).

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-11-15 · 75% match

Gelato Pique parent rides COVID success to $1.4bn sale to Bain

TOKYO -- Bain Capital of the U.S. will acquire Japanese apparel maker Mash Holdings for about 200 billion yen ($1.4 billion) in what will be one of the largest private equity deals in the country's fashion industry, Nikkei has learned.

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