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What to expect from APAC private equity in 2025

The region could see renewed appetites for Southeast Asia, a burgeoning IR community in East Asia and new pockets of secondaries opportunities next year.

5 min read · 02 January 2025

When portfolio companies become too big to exit

As some portfolio companies have grown beyond expectations, GPs are seeking exit alternatives.

7 min read · 23 December 2024

M&A sees green shoots in 2024: Story of the Year

Private equity deal value was up 36% in the first three quarters, with a further flurry of activity following the US election.

3 min read · 19 December 2024

Number Crunch: Education investment fails to make the grade

Private equity investment in the education sector has slumped since the pandemic-driven days of online learning.

3 min read · 27 November 2024

KKR’s Bae: ‘Our best returns are in Japanese PE'

Japan is the firm’s second-largest destination for PE deployment, co-chief Joseph Bae told delegates at the HKMA’s 2024 Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit.

3 min read · 20 November 2024

Asian GPs hope for a SEA change

Southeast Asia, once touted as the continent’s next big thing in private equity, is struggling to live up to expectations. What’s holding the region back?

10 min read · 04 November 2024

Private wealth is a 'battleground' as distributors add fewer firms – Partners Group

The strategy is the firm's fastest growing unit from a headcount perspective, according to chief executive David Layton.

3 min read · 03 September 2024

Ham Lane: US investors have never received an APAC risk premium

Asia-Pacific's lack of a risk premium does not mean it has underperformed, according to Hamilton Lane co-chief executive Juan Delgado-Moreira and co-head of Asia investments Collwyn Tan.

3 min read · 12 August 2024

Europe's Apheon returns 2x average DPI after liquidating third flagship

The Brussels-headquartered buyout shop, formerly known as Ergon Capital, reopened Fund III in 2016 to introduce new external capital via a stapled secondary.

4 min read · 18 July 2024

BC Partners generated around €9bn of proceeds over past year and a half

Exit activity across the industry will continue to pick up over the second half of this year, says the firm’s chairman of Europe Nikos Stathopoulos.

3 min read · 10 July 2024

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