Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for Private Equity International and editing its daily Side Letter briefing for subscribers.
He joined the business in 2017 and previously covered the EMEA region from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
IMM RoseGold IV is already about one-third deployed across four investments, including the $500m carve-out of Genuone Sciences.
Blank-cheque companies have already won fans the US and could be set to push further into Europe and Asia next year.
Diversity and inclusion appear to have become less of a priority during the pandemic – this is a step in the wrong direction.
The A$49bn institution has ‘a lot of money’ invested across Chinese private equity and venture capital, PE head Neil Stanford tells delegates at a virtual conference.
The Berlin fintech last month snapped up Winson Ng, former head of UBS Wealth Management’s PE team, and Sweta Chattopadhyay, former head of PE at bfinance.
The initiative has 46 founding signatories, including Blackstone, The Carlyle Group and Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
Businesses that should seek new ownership aren’t being listed for sale during coronavirus, Tim Sims, founder of Pacific Equity Partners, tells delegates at PEI’s Value Creation Forum: Asia.
Some Indian business owners have become more receptive to private equity capital during the pandemic, Neeraj Bharadwaj, a Mumbai-based MD at Carlyle, told PEI.
Pandemic travel bans have reduced competition for the country’s domestic firms after a period of intense spending by regional and global players.
Deal volumes and valuations remain split across sectors despite a rebound in capital markets and the renewed availability of debt, according to the firm’s Private Markets Navigator Outlook 2021.