Asia-Pacific

Favourable conditions are spurring the country’s private equity industry into the next stage of development, say NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Shohei Akiyama.

Structural changes in Japanese society are driving private equity dealflow among founder-owned businesses and corporate carve-outs, say Atsushi Akaike and Daisuke Takatsuki at CVC Japan.

The fragmented Japanese waste management industry represents a compelling private equity opportunity, say J-STAR principal Masayoshi Nakajima, manager Hisato Iwamoto and managing partner Hideaki Sakurai.

Japanese LPs are looking beyond commingled funds to more customised solutions, including fund of ones and SMAs, say Neuberger Berman’s Ryo Ohira, Jonathan Shofet and Yoshi Yagisawa.

Against an increasingly bifurcated geopolitical backdrop, Japan is uniquely positioned to give investors a stable and safe access platform to Asia’s secular growth story, says Mark Chiba, group chairman and partner at The Longreach Group.

Overseas PE firms that can overcome the challenges of building business in Japan will be able to capitalise on countless opportunities, says Sakuya Tajima, head of business development in Japan for Sanne Group

The fundraising platform plans to launch a European Long-Term Investment Fund alongside an as-yet-undetermined partner as early as Q4 2022, Moonfare founder Steffen Pauls tells PEI.

Warburg Pincus, KKR and Permira are among private equity funds included in Astrea VII – the first securitisation to offer the Singaporean public access to higher risk-return profile bonds.