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.
Go Yamashita’s appointment comes on the heels of KKR’s $9.3bn Asian fund close.
1 min read · 21 June 2017
Baring Asia’s second take-private of Nord Anglia could have a profound effect on the firm’s next fundraise.
5 min read · 20 June 2017
Fundraising activity in Japan has soared in the last year and overseas investors who once bypassed the country are now touching down.
3 min read · 20 June 2017
India’s reforms on foreign direct investment and rising urbanisation are drawing the attention of global institutional investors.
2 min read · 20 June 2017
A record $7.8bn worth of deals in the region were completed in 2016, mainly driven by large-cap deals in Indonesia’s technology sector, according to a report from EY.
2 min read · 16 June 2017
The Canadian pension giant said it is part of the problem of too much dry powder in the region.
2 min read · 15 June 2017
Japan’s domestic market is not large enough to absorb capital from pensions, Daisuke Hamaguchi, CIO of the $107bn Pension Fund Association of Japan, said.
1 min read · 15 June 2017
Andrew Huang, a veteran dealmaker at Goldman Sachs, has joined the Hong Kong-based firm as managing director.
1 min read · 15 June 2017
Asian insurers, with Korean institutions at the fore, are pushing for more alternative investments as the search for higher yield continues, according to a report from Cerulli Associates.
2 min read · 14 June 2017
The firm has backed an ex-Tata Communications executive eyeing data centres and digital media services in Latin America and Asia.
1 min read · 14 June 2017
