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2023 preview: Buyouts

Even though debt is more readily available in Asia than in the US or Europe, financing costs are up, and buyout investors are reluctant to move for assets in an uncertain and overvalued market

  • Buyouts
  • 14 December 2022
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2023 preview: Fundraising

Fundraising is difficult for all but the fortunate few private equity managers in Asia. GPs are delaying launches, shaking up strategies, and offering sweeteners; LPs are in no hurry to make commitments

  • Fundraising
  • 14 December 2022
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Q&A: CICC Capital’s Mengyang Yang

Mengyang Yang, an executive director and head of private equity in Hong Kong at CICC Capital, on China’s post-pandemic revival, plans for a flagship US dollar fund, and managing guidance funds

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
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To pastures new: Asia PE people moves

A selection of the transfers, promotions, arrivals, and departures in the private equity community in 2022

  • GPs
  • 14 December 2022
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Q&A: Bain Capital’s David Gross-Loh

David Gross-Loh, a managing director and a founding member of the Asia business at Bain Capital, on expanding into Osaka, targeting large-cap carve-outs in Japan, and the availability of deal financing

  • North Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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Dalma Capital buys Singapore's Global CIO Office

Dalma Capital Group, a Dubai-headquartered alternative investment management platform, has agreed to buy The Global CIO Office, a Singapore-based outsourced CIO business that primarily serves family offices.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 December 2022
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Overallocation-driven secondary sales more talk than action – Coller

More LPs are considering sales of private equity positions via the secondary market as they find themselves overallocated to the asset class following sharp adjustments in public markets valuations, but Coller Capital has yet to see this translate into...

  • Secondaries
  • 14 December 2022
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Affirma hits first close on renminbi fund

Emerging markets-focused private equity firm Affirma Capital has reached a first close of approximately CNY 1.5bn (USD 215m) on its debut renminbi-denominated fund.

  • Greater China
  • 09 December 2022
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India's Blume closes fourth India VC fund on $250m

India’s Blume Ventures has closed its fourth fund targeting seed-stage tech start-ups on USD 250m, beating a target of USD 200m. Fund III raised USD 105m in 2020.

  • South Asia
  • 08 December 2022
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Thoma Bravo raises $32b for deployment in software

Thoma Bravo, a specialist investor in software companies, has closed its latest set of buyout funds with more than USD 32.4bn in commitments. This compares to USD 22.8bn in the previous vintage.

  • North America
  • 08 December 2022
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Northleaf launches Tokyo office, targets Asian LPs

Northleaf Capital Partners, a Canada-based asset manager that invests in private equity, private credit, and infrastructure, has opened a Tokyo office to spearhead fundraising activity in Asia and is considering the addition of a Korea presence.

  • GPs
  • 07 December 2022
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Fund focus: Southeast Asia piques Silicon Valley interest

Singapore’s Iterative is dazzling its entrepreneurial friends in the US with tales of seed-stage success in Southeast Asia and channelling that interest into a sophomore fund

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 December 2022
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Profile: Gaja Capital’s Gopal Jain

Though pleased with India’s progress in the past 30 years, Gopal Jain set up Gaja Capital to help take it to the next level. He sees PE as a central pillar of economic growth and by extension national morale

  • South Asia
  • 06 December 2022
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Asia secondaries: Layers and structures

With private market valuations yet to see a meaningful reset in Asia and heightened risk factors in China, investors are exploring ways to drive secondary deal flow by closing the bid-ask spread

  • Secondaries
  • 06 December 2022
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India's 3one4 seeks $200m for fourth VC fund

3one4 Capital, an India-based early-stage investor, has launched its fourth venture capital fund with a target of USD 200m. It raised the same amount in the previous vintage.

  • South Asia
  • 01 December 2022
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CEO of Singapore's EDBI departs to launch own fund

Swee Yeok Chu, CEO and president of Singapore government investor EDBI, is stepping down from her role with a view to launching her own fund.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 30 November 2022
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GPs prioritise specialisation, value creation in Asia - AVCJ Forum

Asian private equity has moved on from chasing momentum plays, with GPs increasingly pursuing opportunities where they have domain expertise and know they can add value, the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum heard.

  • Buyouts
  • 30 November 2022
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Q&A: Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Patrick Reid

Patrick Reid, a UK-based managing director for alternatives distribution management at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, plots the future of themes around secondaries, longer holds, and hybrid approaches to PE

  • Secondaries
  • 30 November 2022
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Fund focus: Panacea defies biotech downturn

Having raised its second fund amid weakening investor sentiment for biotech, Panacea Venture expects deployment to be guided by a widening valuation gap between the US and China

  • Greater China
  • 29 November 2022
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Asia Partners targets $600m for second Southeast Asia fund

Asia Partners, a Singapore-based private equity firm focused on growth-stage technology investments, is targeting USD 600m for its second fund.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 29 November 2022
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China's Primavera targets $300m for credit fund

Primavera Capital Group is looking to raise USD 300m for a private credit fund as the China-focused private equity firm continues to diversify its offering by geography and strategy.

  • Greater China
  • 28 November 2022
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Japan's Jafco launches buybacks to thwart activist threat

Japanese venture capital firm Jafco has announced a JPY 42bn (USD 305m) share buyback programme that will take out positions held by investors with ties to activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami.

  • North Asia
  • 28 November 2022
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Unison Korea targets $680m for Fund III

Unison Capital is targeting KRW 800bn-KRW 900bn (USD 603m-USD 680m) for its third Korea fund, nearly twice what was raised in the previous vintage.

  • North Asia
  • 25 November 2022
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India's Multiples targets up to $1b for Fund IV

Multiples Alternate Asset Management is looking to raise up to USD 1bn for its fourth India-focused fund, with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) proposing a USD 60m commitment.

  • South Asia
  • 24 November 2022
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