Private Equity Deals & Transactions

Operational Excellence Award winners 2016: Asia-Pacific

Actis and Navis Capital among those picking up awards in this year’s list of the private equity companies doing the most to build better companies.

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Private Equity International is delighted to announce the Asia-Pacific winners of the Operational Excellence Awards 2016, recognising those firms that have had the most transformative effect on portfolio companies during their period of ownership. 

Here are the Asia-Pacific winners in full:

Small cap: DRC Capital – PayDesign
A 'shrink-to-grow' policy paid dividends for DRC Capital when it acquired Tokyo-based electronic payment services company PayDesign.

Lower mid-market: Navis Capital Partners – Golden Foods Siam
Navis Capital Partners generated a 3.6x return when it sold one of Thailand’s largest chicken processors earlier this year.

Upper mid-market: NewQuest Capital Partners – China Hydroelectric Corporation
Adding operational value can be an acrimonious process, as NewQuest Capital Partners discovered.

Large cap: Actis – Plateno
Chinese hotel operator Plateno Hotel Group was transformed under Actis’s ownership.