Private equity firm TPG is selling the luxury cosmetics packaging firm after purchasing it in July 2023 for around $230m.

David Wang and Meka Meng have joined from Paul Hastings in Shanghai and Beijing.

David He, who has global experience across M&A, private equity and restructurings, joined from Gunderson Dettmer at the beginning of September.

Quentin Galmiche will start the role in Hong Kong on September 1; he first joined the French bank in 2009.

The funds were raised to further support the firm’s cleaner energy supply to remote mining sites across Australia; this is the first debt fundraising from Octa Group.

Singapore-based Phua has become head of markets solutions under cluster sales, Asia North and Asia South, for clients of Citi Commercial Bank.

The sustainability linked financing covers greenfield and operational assets across Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, and involved a consortium of 60 banks. The financing comes after Blackstone and CPPIB's acquisition of the group last year.

The financing is the largest foreign direct investment in Pakistan's history and is expected to help create the world's fifth largest copper mine in Chagai, which is expected to start producing copper in 2028.

Hanoi’s capital market initiatives are driving Vietnamese equities higher even as concerns over Asia’s trade outlook and erratic tariffs continue to overhang sentiment.

Jiang joins the French bank in Hong Kong from Santander as head of industry group, industrial and technology, Apac.