Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
The Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia plans to invest more in shariah-compliant private equity funds as is assets increase to $180bn.
Regulations expected to slow the country's outbound deals are instead paving the way for more cross-border buyout funds targeting government-favoured industries.
The Tokyo-based manager received more than 80% of commitments from global institutional investors such as North American pensions and endowments, as well as European funds of funds, and financial institutions.
The Japanese pension fund has selected Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank as its second external manager to handle its local private equity mandate.
On a typically humid September day in Hong Kong, four industry veterans gather to discuss the opportunities stemming from China’s developing buyout market, and the overall private equity environment in the region. On one point, they are in agreement: investors have a lot more choice. The industry is maturing: fundraising focused on the region has […]
Pacific Equity Partners alleged that Adamantem Capital founders Anthony Kerwick and Rob Koczkar have breached confidentiality agreements with their former employer while raising money for their new fund.
The North Asia-focused manager has hired former Deutsche Bank managing director Stephen Le as co-head of its debut credit and special situations unit.
Tokihiko Shimizu, head of private markets at the $1.9trn investor, offers his views on its investment strategy as global and Japanese LPs move more aggressively into the asset class, and the role the bank hopes to play in stimulating the domestic market.
The distressed debt investor plans to increase its investment personnel in the region as it readies more aggressive investing into China and India, the firm’s CEO Jay Wintrob said on Monday.
Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Commission will co-invest up to $50m alongside venture capital firms to back tech-focused companies.