Brightrust Buyout Monthly For July-Sept 2012

The July-September issue covers;

• Unison's $1 billion Sushiro exit,  foreign funds sweep large deals 
• Unison invests in Korean battery company
• Polaris invests in a unique housing company
• Fortress acquires a troubled debt-collection company and its parent consumer finance company 
• JIS invests $190 million in a semiconductor fabrication maker under reconstruction
• ACA and Sompo Japan invest in an elderly care home operator
• JIP buys a mobile phone seller from Olympus Corporation for $680 million 
• Permira buys Japan's top-selling belt-conveyer Sushi restaurant from Unison
• Next buys a 40-year-old cooking school operator for turnaround
• Jupiter Shop Channel, 50% owned by Bain, expands into Thailand
• Aozora managed to push back Gov't takeover deadline, but Cerberus will sell its 50 % stake
• Carlyle postponed the listing of Tsubaki Nakashima
• INCJ invests in a high-tech battery JV with 3 Japanese companies
• iSigma sells a fruit juice maker to a strategic buyer
• Advantage will hand over its restaurant chain investment to a strategic buyer
• J-Star sells a silver-focused mail order company at a high multiple
• Nippon Mirai divests a restaurant information service provider
• DRC exits from its 5.5 year old PIPE deal 
• State-backed ETIC makes $4 billion profit from Japan Airlines turnaround
• KKR may lose $1.3 billion chip maker deal to a Japan consortium led by INCJ
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government appoints 2 infrastructure managers
• Japan's largest public pension will study implementation schemes for its PE investments,  etc.

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