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Growing expectations around data analytics, transparency and process automation are giving rise to a greater role for tech in private equity fund services, say Apex Group’s Elaine Chim, Kartik Shah and Gareth Smith

Ryan Lanpher at Permira says partnering with strong management teams is the best way to capture value during these unprecedented times.

Amendments to Ireland’s limited partnership regime establish it as a leading jurisdiction for private market funds to raise and deploy capital, write Dillon Eustace partners Shane Geraghty and Derbhil O’Riordan.

Some of the most attractive opporuntinities in Japan are in areas where private equity firms wouldn’t normally look, say J-STAR’s Kenichi Harada, Yutaka Tozaki and Takanori Unami.

The Japanese private equity unit of Hong Kong’s CLSA Capital Partners is honing its own distinctive approach for the post-pandemic environment, as managing director Ryoichiro Minagawa and directors Shota Kuwaki and Yasunori Maeda explain.

The covid crisis has not only seen alternative assets become more attractive (compared with traditional asset classes), but also highlighted the need for wealth managers to digitise, say Bite Investments’ COO Henry Reynolds and CEO William Rudebeck.

Many parts of the world stood still during the pandemic but Japanese buyout firm Ant Capital has had its busiest year to date, say managing partners Ryosuke Iinuma and John Cheuck.

Private equity has benefitted from strong public financial support in the country but the conditions for fund management growth remain insufficient, writes POELLATH’s Andreas Rodin.

Both LPs and GPs are getting more sophisticated in their approach to raising capital and addressing liquidity challenges. There are now many more options on the table, says Sam Kay, partner and head of investment funds at Travers Smith.

SEC-regulated entities can learn some lessons from the Reddit-linked short-squeeze and its fallout, write Troutman Pepper partners Stephanie Pindyck Costantino, Thao Le, Jay Dubow and Genna Garver.