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.
Chaebols in Korea and Chinese state-owned enterprises and tech giants make Asian private equity an uneven playing field than the West, says Ontario Teachers’ director of funds in Hong Kong.
2 min read · 22 March 2018
The world's second-biggest sovereign wealth fund shed its 11-year investment in the US private equity giant. Is this the end of the road for the partnership?
4 min read · 21 March 2018
Khazanah Nasional's managing director says investors and management teams need to utilise technology to boost productivity and deliver shareholder value.
2 min read · 20 March 2018
The Asian private equity industry, now more than two decades old, is seeing less passive, growth investors and more of the 'big boys' playing an active role in portfolio company growth.
3 min read · 20 March 2018
The fund is 50% larger than its 2014-vintage predecessor.
2 min read · 19 March 2018
Datuk Ben Chan will relocate from Beijing to Hong Kong for the role of a regional managing director at the Canadian pension.
2 min read · 16 March 2018
Asia’s improved macro climate and the pressure to deploy dry powder drove record fundraising, deal values and exit values for 2017.
2 min read · 15 March 2018
The firm’s over $370m investment in Techcombank came from two of its global funds, the Warburg Pincus Private Equity XII and the Financial Sector Fund.
2 min read · 14 March 2018
In search of dealflow and LP capital, private equity firms and professionals are heading east.
3 min read · 08 March 2018
Applicants must make a minimum 1% GP commitment of the total fund size.
1 min read · 07 March 2018
