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Carlyle’s Asia chairman: We’re leaning in to China

The Washington DC-headquartered firm expects to be opportunistic in Chinese private equity over the next six to nine months, Xiang-Dong Yang tells PEI.

3 min read · 27 September 2022

How KKR is thinking about the geopolitical landscape in 2022

The era of great-power competition, which includes intensifying scrutiny, restrictions and regulation around the movement of capital, goods, data and technology, presents both challenges and opportunities, says Global Institute executive director Vance Serchuk.

6 min read · 31 August 2022

Partners Group targets smaller businesses as market dislocation catalyses bolt-on spree

Roll-up acquisition activity will continue until there is more stability in the larger end of the market, Partners Group chief executive David Layton said during its interim results call on Tuesday.

2 min read · 31 August 2022

KKR records a 10x ‘win’ for employee ownership

Revealing details of the deal to CHI employees in person was, 'one of the most joyful things I have been involved in in my life', said KKR's Pete Stavros.

2 min read · 17 May 2022

Korean buyout shop VIG ponders dedicated growth capital team

VIG Fund IV is 69% invested and expected to complete one more deal this year, managing partner Chulmin Lee tells PEI.

2 min read · 05 May 2022

Japan’s J-STAR explores GP-leds as it begins ‘aggressive’ bolt-on spree

PEI caught up with J-STAR partner Tatsuya Yumoto and IR principal Kenta Shima to discuss plans for its fifth flagship fund, which closed on $576m last week.

3 min read · 04 May 2022

GP stakes giant Petershill Partners ‘starting to see activity in Asia’

North American GPs accounted for 89% of Petershill Partners' invested capital as of end-December, with the remainder in Europe, according to its maiden full-year earnings.

3 min read · 20 April 2022

Tough new SEC rules could chill SPACs

Will a new rulemaking proposal from the SEC slow down the use of blank-cheque companies, which raised a record $162.5bn through 613 IPOs last year?

3 min read · 31 March 2022

Five takeaways from Bain & Co's latest APAC PE report

A tumultuous 2021 saw records set in deal and exit value, while US listings of Chinese companies tumbled due to regulatory upheaval, the report found.

4 min read · 30 March 2022

EQT eyes Asia's growing private wealth market with €6.8bn Baring PE acquisition

A host of private markets participants have flocked to Asia-Pacific in recent years as the size and depth of its private wealth community soars.

3 min read · 16 March 2022

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