The Carlyle Group Completes the Acquisition of Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd.

Tokyo, Japan – Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group announced that it has successfully closed the acquisition of 95.56% of the outstanding shares of Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd. from Nomura Principal Finance Co., Ltd. as scheduled. The deal was announced on March 1, 2011. Carlyle will provide its full support to promote the medium-to-long-term growth of Tsubaki Nakashima.

Mr. Tamotsu Adachi, Managing Director and Co-Head of Carlyle Japan Partners, said, “We are pleased to complete the acquisition with full cooperation from all involved parties, despite the difficulties following the recent earthquake. The earthquake will have a considerable impact on Japan as a whole, but we believe that Tsubaki Nakashima’s fundamental competitiveness will remain unaffected. We hope to contribute to the recovery of the Japanese economy through growing Tsubaki Nakashima’s business.”

Contact:

Dorothy Lee
The Carlyle Group
Tel: +852 2878 5091
Mobile: +852 9109 5466

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About The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with $97.7 billion of assets under management committed to 76 funds as of September 30, 2010. Carlyle invests across three asset classes - private equity, real estate and credit alternatives - in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America focusing on aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, consumer & retail, energy & power, financial services, healthcare, industrial, infrastructure, technology & business services and telecommunications & media. Since 1987, the firm has invested $64.7 billion of equity in 1,015 transactions. The Carlyle Group employs more than 900 people in 19 countries. As of June 30, 2009, in the aggregate, Carlyle portfolio companies have more than $84 billion in revenue and employ more than 398,000 people around the world. Web: www.carlyle.com;  Video: www.youtube.com/OneCarlyle

About Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd.
Tsubaki Nakashima is one of the world’s leading specialized manufacturers of steel balls. Since its establishment in 1936, the Company has created systems that draw on its spherical surface processing technology to mass-produce a stable supply of high surface precision balls. The Company has built its customer base, mainly among bearing manufacturers in Japan and overseas.

The Company’s lines of business are its “precision products business”, which comprises the manufacturing of the previously mentioned steel balls as well as ball screws and ball ways, and its “air blower business”, which includes manufacturing of medium-sized to large fans and blowers based on its know-how accumulated over many years. The Company has developed global operations through business locations in Japan, North America, South America, Europe and the rest of Asia. www.tsubaki.com

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