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Taisuke Sasanuma and Richard Folsom, Advantage Partners’ representative partners, talk us through three decades of investing in Japan

Koji Sasaki, president and managing partner of T Capital Partners, maps the road ahead for the firm now that it has separated from Tokio Marine Insurance Group

Family-owned businesses account for more than half of all PE deals in Japan. Instilling a professional management culture requires a careful leadership transition, says Jun Tsusaka, founding partner of NSSK.

Partner Peter Martenson and managing director Michael Pilson discuss how Eaton Partners ventured into GP-led secondaries, new opportunities in the market and why GPs should be proactive in exploring their options.

GP-led secondaries have grown rapidly by both value and volume over the past few years. Tristram Perkins and Ben Perl discuss how they are evolving.

Investor demands for liquidity are driving fund managers to use the secondaries market in creative ways, say Sam Kay and Edward Ford of Travers Smith.

Cultural fit is crucial to the success of projects. That’s why the choice of consultant is vital for value creation, says Charlotte Gregson, managing director, COMATCH, an online marketplace for industry experts.

Machine learning solutions can play a key role in any firm’s value creation arsenal, with a minimum investment of time and resources, says RSM’s Dave Noonan.

Value creation starts in pre-deal due diligence, say Friederich von Hurter, partner, M&A Integration, and Filip Debevc, senior manager, Deals at PwC Germany. And the role of the advisor does not stop there.

Private equity firms are leveraging tech advances to drive transformative value creation, say Sean Epstein, SVP and head of private equity at SAP, and Georgette Kiser, operating executive at the Carlyle Group.