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During one heated episode, local managers called the police to the company's Shanghai offices, prompting the TPG-led entourage to leave.

"Their message was, 'Pay me off or I will own the company', " recalls one participant. TPG was being told to "get out of the way" .

TPG said the local government in the Pudong district of Shanghai would be a partner.

TPG officials tried to contact Mr Dondero to work things out but people familiar with the matter say Mr Dondero declined to return calls.

TPG then put a notice in the paper that the company had lost its chop and applied to the authorities for a replacement.

None of TPG's competitors has done a buy-out to take full control of a Chinese company in recent years on the mainland.

TPG bought the firm as a joint venture with an entrepreneur in 2006 just as the demand for cars began to soar in China.

Judging from his fund TPG's recent track record, it's not hard to see why.

"We couldn't get access to the company or to the chop, " says the TPG spokesman.

With the terms more onerous than any a sovereign fund would demand, the talks between TPG and Merrill did not get very far.

Mr Shan has a strong record on deals in China, structured to give Pacific Alliance control in many cases, one of his trademarks at TPG.

Over half of TPG's holdings are still in a lock-up period and its stake will not be fully tradable until the middle of next year.

TPG is one of a handful of firms to announce a yuan-denominated fund, which will raise funds from local investors.

The Citi portfolio includes loans used to finance acquisitions by Apollo, Blackstone and TPG, as well as debt in their rivals' deals.

TPG-Axon has recently let go of at least a third of its Asian staff, while maintaining its US workforce, according to insiders.

TPG has raised more money specifically earmarked for investment in Asia than any other international firm.

Some including TPG, Candover and Permira are giving back some of the money they had raised.

It recently agreed to put more than $2. 5bn into a fund run by private equity firm TPG.

When it emerges, the two are likely to own Aleris for a fraction of what TPG paid.

TPG fundholders have been able to sell for slightly higher prices.

Ornamental plants are the plum blossom, TPG, Carnation, azaleas, chrysanthemums hills, holly flowers, Venus plum, silver-Star.

TPG-Axon declares that its newly restructured portfolio is "fresh" , which makes it sound like a personal hygiene product.

But TPG's withdrawal still looks like a vote of no-confidence in a sector that desperately needs it.

The deal is sufficiently small for the squeeze in credit markets not to constrain TPG's ability to lodge an improved counter-offer.

Swapping into Ping An shares leaves it indirectly exposed to SDB, still one of China's most thinly capitalized listed banks.

Eventually, the city government issued another chop to the TPG side, a decision that the former management is disputing in court.

Washington Mutual boosted its capital position by raising $7 billion in a sale of new shares to investors led by TPG, a private-equity firm.

TPG and its hedge fund affiliate TPG-Axon offered to put as much as $3bn into Merrill.

One cautionary tale is Bally, the Swiss shoemaker bought by US buy-out firm TPG in 1999, the peak of the last stock market bubble.

Some of these official investors have brought in foreign partners, including big private-equity firms such as Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG.

TNT is a division of TPG N. V, a Global 500 Fortune. Frankfurt, the company reported sales of over eleven billon Euro in Y2003.

The presence of a large investor like Safe could complicate TPG's relations with other investors.

TPG has told investors it values its portfolio more conservatively than its peers and expects valuations to improve, these investors say.

It no longer has public shares since being taken private by Silver Lake and TPG, but its debt is traded by investors.

It was always expected that PCRD's minority shareholders would get to vote on the TPG Newbridge offer.

In 2002 it was sold to a consortium of private-equity investors: TPG, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs.

By contrast, buyout groups that are private, like TPG, sometimes value their holdings less frequently.

Fund raising will begin 'in the next several months, ' TPG said.

TPG moved quickly, buying a 60 per cent stake in Nissin and its Chinese subsidiary for $275m in a deal that closed in February.

Similarly, TPG, the US private equity firm, made billions on its stake in Shenzhen Development Bank.

TPG has been one of the most active and earliest movers among the international firms to invest in China.

In 2002 it was sold to a group of private-equity investors: TPG, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs.

Lenovo turned to TPG and General Atlantic, another private equity firm, for help in running the US technology operation.

Stephen Peel, managing partner and head of Asia for TPG, said CDB has played an important role in the overseas expansion of Chinese firms.

TPG, another global fund, is preparing a $2bn Australian listing of its Myer department store chain.

Conclusion: TPG possesses obvious protective effects on mice of acute cerebral ischemia.

On June 5th buy-out funds run by TPG and Goldman Sachs sold Alltel, an American cellular operator to Verizon Wireless at a slight premium.

TPG hopes to take China Grand Auto public in the next few years.

TPG's dispute with the former management of Nissin Leasing (China) is especially dismaying because TPG has a long history in the region.

Grohe, owned by private equity funds run by TPG and Credit Suisse, is Europe's largest maker of sanitary fittings by sales.

TPG, one of the world's largest private-equity firms, lost $1. 35 billion on struggling thrift Washington Mutual Inc.

TPG and Bain have become the latest victims of allegations of accounting irregularities at an Asian company.

CONCLUSION It is suggested that TPG possess obvious improvement effects on ability of learning and memory in dysmnesia mice.

Having recommended TPG's offer in part because of price, Midwest's board of directors will be hard-pressed to turn down a higher bid now.

Morgan Stanley, TPG, and KKR declined to comment on the Journal report. CICC could not immediately be reached for comment.

Apollo would buy about half the portfolio, with Blackstone and TPG taking the rest.

Before the proposed offering 72. 3% of the company's stock is owned by Silver Lake and TPG.

Bright Food had discussions with Blackstone and, subsequently, TPG, they added.

TPG recently announced plans to raise two Chinese currency-denominated funds, each sized at more than $700 million.

Indeed, in 2010, TPG's Asian funds performed far better than its flagship US funds.

Other funds looking at gold include Eton Park and TPG-Axon, investors said.

TPG-Axon begins its letter by saying "2007 was a remarkable year across global markets" .

TPG has submitted a bid, according to people involved in the transaction, while Macquarie was also mulling an offer.

Mr Paulson has told investors he was approached to join the TPG group in buying a stake in WaMu but declined.

Industry insiders say working with TPG on the deal gave CDH vital experience of U. S. buyout processes.

TPG is expected to help part fund the start-up venture and to co-invest in some deals.

Regulatory approvals are required, and only by cashing out completely can TPG claim a clean exit.

TPG Financial Partners originally received commitments for a $6bn fund in February 2008.

Shares dropped sharply on news of TPG's exit in early trading on Friday, to hover just above the rights-issue price of 55 pence per share.

That decision was taken, insiders said at the time, because B&B wanted to get TPG on board at their offer price of 55 pence.

TPG, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs still own a sizeable stake in BK, despite listing it on the New York Stock Exchange in 2006.

And [Macquarie and TPG Newbridge] hate being involved in these public disputes.

But almost immediately after TPG's purchase of their NIS stake, things went wrong.

Both Bain and TPG have already contacted their investors to inform them of the situation.

Ping An said it had received all the necessary approvals to buy TPG's 16. 76 per cent stake in SDB.

In April, Bain and TPG, another private-equity firm, bought a stake in Lilliput Kidswear, a children's apparel company in India.

TPG bought into Shenzhen Development Bank six years ago for a mere $150 million.

By 2007, when TPG began considering the investment, it was the largest leasing company in China by some measures.

TPG representatives refused to comment on the deal.

Parent company China Development Bank holds a small stake in TPG.

TPG, which invested in SDB through its subsidiary Newbridge, also has the option to take Ping An shares instead of cash.

But analysts were sceptical of TPG's ability to improve operations at Li Ning.

Some funds, such as Bain Capital and TPG Capital, have allowed investors to recall some of their capital commitments.

TPG acquired its stake in several portions at different prices over several years starting in 2004.

In March TPG sold its minority stake in Parkway Holdings, a chain operating 16 hospitals in half a dozen Asian countries, for $685m.

It emerged yesterday that PCRD's minority shareholders will get to vote on the TPG Newbridge offer next month.

TPG and its investors lost all their money.

Carlyle declined to comment, while TPG and GIP said they could not offer any immediate comment.

Texas Pacific Group (TPG) has acquired a 10 percent stake in Brazilian carrier Azul.

It was a busy week for TPG.

The new TPG fund has not closed but has about $17bn in assets.

But based on SDB's closing price on Friday of Rmb20 per share, TPG stands to make a 565 per cent return on its initial investment.

TPGV is the growth fund of TPG, a leading global alternative investment firm.

TPG's stake has been diluted and it has bought more shares since then.

A spokesman for TPG also declined to comment.

Both Goldman and TPG declined to comment.

"I have really enjoyed my time with TPG and feel that now is the right time to move on, " he told the Financial Times.

The departures come as regulators examine the deal to sell Morgan Stanley's 34. 3 per cent stake in CICC to KKR and TPG for about $1bn.

It is understood that about half of TPG's $300m investment was leveraged, which would make the real return much higher.

S. buyout firm TPG in 2006 to run the firm.

The lock-up period on TPG's remaining 6 per cent stake will not end until June 2010.

R. , TPG and Permira will give the Chinese bank access to their expertise in private equity.

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TPG-Axon is an interminable 17.

TPG called the agreement a 'partnership, ' and the government said it welcomes TPG's 'on-shore investment platform. '

Bain and TPG invested $60m and $26m respectively into Lilliput in April 2010.

Some of TPG's best deals, such as Korea First Bankand Shenzhen Development Bank, came in spite of heavy regulatory interference.

Rivals like TPG and Carlyle, which have long has been active in China, are stepping up activity.

TPG has been in China for years and has yuan-denominated funds in Shanghai and Chongqing with which it can buy Chinese companies.

Last year Avon agreed to sell its fledgling Japan unit to private-equity firm TPG Capital.

International private equity firms such as KKR and TPG have long been interested in buying banks in Japan but regulators remain wary.

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