Asia-Pacific

The placement agent and advisory firm hired Charlie Yan, a former managing director at Shanghai asset manager Fosun International, in its Hong Kong office.

Robust performance and a deep pool of opportunities are drawing GPs and LPs alike to commit more capital to the market.

Eurazeo China Growth Fund will be sector agnostic and will aim to help European companies that want to tap China’s growing middle-class consumer market.

Japanese LPs provided 40% of the $650m Fund III, investor relations director Lisa Herrell tells PEI.

The state-owned conglomerate's private equity subsidiary will look to tap Chinese fund institutions and corporates, family offices and overseas markets including the UK and US.

For Japanese industrial businesses, a key growth driver is a revitalised management team, say J-STAR managing partner Kenichi Harada and principal Hiroaki Kiriseko

Partnering with company founders provides contrarian private equity buyers a rich seam of investments, says CLSA Capital Partners president Megumi Kiyozuka.

Domestic LPs are taking a more sophisticated approach to private equity, which involves the greater use of separate accounts, says Ryo Ohira, Neuberger Berman’s head of East Asia

Japanese private equity may have had a few false dawns in the past, but the market today is very different from that of just 10 years ago, says NSSK founding partner Jun Tsusaka