Private Equity
As Japan’s private equity market grows, impact and secondaries strategies gain momentum, and competition for talent intensifies.
4 min read · 01 June 2022
Now that the importance of ESG is well-understood in Japan, the market is beginning to wake up to impact.
7 min read · 01 June 2022
Favourable conditions are spurring the country’s private equity industry into the next stage of development, say NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Shohei Akiyama.
7 min read · 01 June 2022
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.
7 min read · 01 June 2022
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.
7 min read · 01 June 2022
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.
7 min read · 01 June 2022
GPs are receiving unprecedented levels of demand for data from LPs, as well as an uptick in reporting requests, say Caroline Baker and Scott Kraemer of Vistra
5 min read · 01 June 2022
Increasing disclosure expectations will require fund administrators and GPs to level up on tech, write Hannah Roberts and Louise Fordham
4 min read · 01 June 2022
As investors ramp up demands for data on diversity, equity and inclusion, outsourcing such requests can offer a sophisticated solution for fund managers – and facilitate wider industry change
5 min read · 01 June 2022
Grappling with European sustainable finance rules was one of the central themes of this year's Impact Investor Global Summit and uncertainty was order of the day.
5 min read · 30 May 2022
