Affinity Equity Partners

Affinity Equity Partners is an independently owned private equity fund managers established in March 2004 following the spin-off of the UBS Capital Asia Pacific team, the successful private equity arm of UBS AG in the region.  Affinity raised its fifth fund of US$6.0 billion in December 2017.  Affinity currently advises and manages approximately US$14 billion of funds and assets, making it one of the largest independent financial sponsors in the region. Affinity operates out of 6 offices: Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Beijing and Jakarta.

Audax Group

Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Since its founding in 1999, the firm has raised over $30 billion in capital across its Private Equity and Private Debt businesses. With more than 250 employees and over 100 investment professionals, the firm is a leading capital partner for North American middle market companies.

The Carlyle Group

The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit and Investment Solutions. With $230 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2020, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 1,800 people in 30 offices across six continents.

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CVC

CVC Capital Partners is one of the world’s leading private equity and investment advisory firms. Founded in 1981, CVC has completed over 300 investments in a wide range of industries and countries across the globe.

Since its establishment in 1999, CVC Asia has raised 5 dedicated Asia funds with total commitments of c.US$15 billion. As of September 2021, CVC Asia has made over 70 investments in the region.

Recent Asian investments include:

• NTL: Thailand’s leading non-bank auto-loan provider

• Soho Global Health: Leading branded consumer health / OTC pharmaceutical company in Indonesia

• Fine Today Shiseido: Carve-out of the personal care business of Japan’s #1 beauty brand with extensive global presence

• BAPE: Premium Japanese streetwear fashion brand with c.150 points of sale across 23 countries

• Yikang: #1 Retail pharmacy chain in China’s Shaanxi Province with c.1,600 outlets nationwide

• Good Choice: Korea’s #2 provider of online accommodation booking services

As of September 2021, CVC Asia consists of 64 investment professionals across 8 offices in the region.

EmergeVest

Formed in 2013, we are a global investment firm with US$500m+ of AuM that seeks to build great businesses, provide innovative capital solutions and generate value for all stakeholders.

We think without limitation. We are operator-led capital allocators. We are personally invested in the success of everything we do. We provide ambitious management teams and founders with access to global institutional capital and expertise through a personal relationship with our team. We provide investors with access to attractive and differentiated value creation.

We are passionate about the secure movement of goods, data and funds across the globe. We invest across the capital structure at the intersection of supply chain, technology and financial services where we have proven domain knowledge and/or operational expertise. We have completed US$2bn+ of transactions globally across 10+ transactions. We are active in growth buyouts, public-ready companies, capital solutions and early-stage venture investments. In every deal executed we have enjoyed a clear proprietary advantage and demonstrated significant value-add from an operational perspective. 

EQT

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. Uniquely, EQT is the only large private markets firm in the world with investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. Including Exeter, EQT today has more than EUR 67 billion in assets under management across 26 active funds within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.

Private Capital - Established in 1995 with the first EQT Private Equity fund, Private Capital is EQT’s largest Business Segment with EUR 34.4 billion of AUM as of 31 March 2021. Private Capital comprises four Business Lines: Private Equity, Ventures, Public Value and Growth. EQT has grown its Private Capital segment rapidly whilst achieving strong returns throughout its history.

Real Assets - Established in 2008 with the first Infrastructure fund, Real Assets is EQT’s second largest segment with EUR 24.3 billion of AUM as of 31 March 2021. The Business Segment employs approximately 70 Investment Advisory Professionals and 11 Advisory Partners across seven offices. Real Assets comprises two Business Lines: Infrastructure and EQT Exeter.

With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

The EQT AB Group comprises EQT AB (publ) and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, which include general partners and fund managers of EQT funds as well as entities advising EQT funds. EQT has offices across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas with more than 975 employees.

TPG

TPG is a leading global alternative asset firm founded in 1992 with over $100 billion of assets under management and offices in Beijing, Fort Worth, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Melbourne, Mumbai, New York, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, and Washington D.C. TPG's investment platforms are across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth equity, impact investing, real estate, secondaries, and public equity. TPG aims to build dynamic products and options for its investors while also instituting discipline and operational excellence across the investment strategy and performance of its portfolio.

KPMG

KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 146 countries and territories and in FY20 had close to 227,000 people working in member firms around the world.

KPMG’s Private Equity group in China provides end to end advisory and assurance services to private equity funds, venture capital funds, private credit funds, sovereign wealth and other direct investment managers. Moreover, to augment this, KPMG China and its member firms have established focused industry groups covering areas in which we have particular knowledge. Not exhaustive, but we have sector capabilities focused on Consumer Markets, Financial Services, Government, Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure, Logistics, Pharmaceuticals and TMT.

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Ares Management Corporation

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, private equity, real estate and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to provide flexible capital to support businesses and create value for our stakeholders and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of June 30, 2021, including the acquisition of Black Creek Group which closed July 1, 2021, Ares Management Corporation's global platform had approximately $262 billion of assets under management, with approximately 2,000 employees operating across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

CarVal Investors

CarVal Investors is an established global alternative investment manager focused on distressed and credit-intensive assets and market inefficiencies. Since 1987, CarVal’s team has navigated through ever-changing credit market cycles, opportunistically investing $126 billion in 5,510 transactions across 82 countries. Today, CarVal Investors has approximately $10 billion in assets under management in corporate securities, loan portfolios, structured credit and hard assets.

HQ Capital

HQ Capital is a leading independent manager of alternative assets, investing on behalf of institutions and families in global private equity and U.S. real estate since 1989. The firm’s 139 employees manage US$11.9 billion in total assets from 10 offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

Through HQ Capital Private Equity and HQ Capital Real Estate, we develop private equity and real estate investment solutions that meet specific client objectives. To deliver these solutions we leverage our investment experience, global network and the business relationships of our local teams. With our innovative and entrepreneurial culture, strong investment acumen, and commitment to social responsibility, HQ Capital is a trusted partner to our clients worldwide.

HQ Capital Private Equity provides a full range of investment programs through commingled funds and separate accounts. We invest in funds on a primary basis, acquire private assets on a secondary basis and co-invest directly alongside our relationship fund managers. Since inception, we have invested in 426 North American, European and Asian private equity funds established by 219 fund managers and have invested directly in 72 companies. HQ Capital currently manages US$6.4 billion in original private equity commitments.

J-Star

J-STAR is a private equity investment company that provides solution capitals to mid-sized Japanese companies through our investment.

We are a group of investment professionals who have abundant experience in the private equity investment since the early stage of the Japanese buyout market. It is our responsible to solve problems that Japanese companies have, such as succession, turnaround, M&As, oversea expansion etc, by utilizing our experience and knowledge to improve values of mid-sized companies.

J-STAR strives for maximization of the business values while communicating with the management teams, shareholders including founding owners, business partners, banks, etc.

Madison India

Madison India Capital is one of India’s leading private investment firms specializing in making equity investments in the financial services, technology, healthcare, consumer and business services industries. We reward shareholders of outstanding companies with liquidity and partner with ambitious management teams of high-growth, middle market companies that strive to shape their industries. Since we are specialists in our sectors of focus we are a value added investor with a deep set of industry and capital markets relationships. We partner with both management and co-investors in every investment we make and work collaboratively to build long-term, sustainable value.

We are highly innovative in structuring single company and portfolio purchases to ensure a full solution and set aside capital to support ambitious companies in their future growth plans. We manage over $600 million in assets for leading global limited partners.

North Summit Capital

North Summit Capital is a tech-intrinsic investment firm, offering resourceful capital and domain-specific AI solutions for the digital transformation of the traditional industries. The mission of North Summit Capital is "to advance inclusive technology for social good". It is a solution + capital model to make AI as actionable, accessible, and affordable intelligence.

Pagoda Capital

Pagoda Capital is a healthcare focused private equity firm founded in 2015 with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York. Pagoda Capital offers an innovative global healthcare investment platform with significant China synergies, leveraging a seasoned and experienced team, operational expertise, and strategic partnerships to help global healthcare firms tap opportunities in the China healthcare sector. Pagoda Capital focuses on investing in global innovations and advanced healthcare solutions spanning key verticals including Biopharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Tools & Diagnostics, Services, and Digital Technologies.

ShawKwei & Partners

ShawKwei & Partners is an international private equity fund manager based in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai.  We have been investing across Asia, the USA, and Europe for over 30 years and understand the challenges facing companies competing in today’s global markets.

We invest with mid-market industrial and service businesses capitalizing on ShawKwei’s core strengths: detailed and insightful analysis, operational skills, and transformation experience to drive business profitability and capital efficiency.  ShawKwei’s partnership with management is pivotal to transforming and improving those investments.

We take significant ownership stakes in our investments coupled with our disciplined and hands-on management to assist portfolio companies to build better business and achieve long-term success.  The ShawKwei strategy, methods and practices are specially crafted for businesses operating across Asia, Europe, and USA. 

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Apex Group

Apex Group Ltd., established in Bermuda in 2003, is a global financial services provider. With 50 offices worldwide and 5,000 employees upon the close of announced acquisitions, Apex delivers an extensive range of services to asset managers, capital markets, private clients and family offices. The Group has continually improved and evolved its capabilities to offer a single-source solution through establishing the broadest range of services in the industry; including fund services, digital onboarding and bank accounts, depositary, custody and super ManCo services, business services including HR and Payroll and a pioneering ESG Ratings and Advisory service for private companies.

eFront

eFront pioneers technology in alternative investments to help alternative investment professionals achieve superior performance. With more than 850 Limited Partner, General Partner and Asset Servicer clients in 48 countries, eFront is the leading technology partner to alternative investment professionals. eFront is the only solution suite addressing all the needs of alternative investment professionals end-to-end: fundraising, portfolio construction, due-diligence, deal-flow, portfolio monitoring, positions tracking, investor reporting, accounting, operations management, General Ledger, Private Market data, benchmarking and advanced analytics (Value at risk, cash flow forecasting, risk management). In 2019, eFront was acquired by BlackRock and since then operates as a specialized business unit within BlackRock Solutions, alongside Aladdin Institutional and Aladdin Wealth.

Quantium Fund

Quantium is a modern, easy-to-use investment management software specifically designed for private equity and venture capital. We help fund managers streamline their fund administration and centralize investor and portfolio information on a unified platform.

With Quantium’s powerful and intuitive tools, you can now easily manage your investment operations with automated accounting, waterfall & performance calculation, and investor allocation. Our applications are built for smooth integration with your existing systems and workflow to prepare you for the long-term success.

Use Quantium to:

- View consolidated key statistics across all funds under management

- Visualize investment performance on charts and tables

- Flexibly interact and access any fund, investor or portfolio data

- Improve investor communications with on-demand access to individualized information

- Automate industry-standard investor and investment performance reports

- Increase investor trust with transparent and innovative solutions

Leverage Quantium’s state-of-the-art technology to ensure the safety of your data and obtain complete visibility of your fund and investment information in an integrated and organized way.

SESAMm

SESAMm is an innovative company specializing in big data and artificial intelligence for investment use cases.

We build alternative data analytics, such as sentiments & emotions or ESG scores and other risk metrics, providing our clients with deep insights.

These are made by analyzing billions of web articles and messages from experts, consumers and other stakeholders in real-time from multiple languages including Japanese and Chinese.

With offices in Paris, London, New York, and Tokyo, SESAMm works with leading financial institutions across the globe, including dozens based in Asia and performing around the world.

Our use cases for private equity and venture capital firms include data-driven due diligence studies, portfolio monitoring, automated deal sourcing and qualification, and more.

Long Hill Capital

Long Hill Capital was founded in 2016 by the team who previously led China investing practice for global investment firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) for over a decade as a next-generation thesis-driven venture capital firm based in China. With offices in Shanghai and Beijing, we today manage over $450M in capital from premiere global investors including endowments, foundations, pension funds and financial institutions.

At Long Hill Capital, we seek to make longevity a gift of life for every Chinese by investing in technology enabled transformations of healthcare and consumer sectors. Together the Long Hill Capital team have decades of experience helping to build industry leaders in our five core thesis areas of focus: Healthcare Services, Healthcare Technology, Enabling Infrastructure for Health, Consumer Health&Wellness and Aging Consumer.

Telstra Ventures

Telstra Ventures identifies what’s next, right now. Telstra Ventures serves extraordinary leaders and helps them achieve their dreams. In our first nine years, 70 plus investments have generated 27 liquidity events including Auth0, BigCommerce, Box, Cloopen, CrowdStrike, DocuSign, Rancher, Skillz, Snap, and Whispir. To date, our Revenue Bearing Relationships^TM have driven >US$300 million in revenue, extending the reach of our portfolio companies across Australia and Asia. In 2018, Telstra Ventures became an independent firm backed by LPs including HarbourVest, the ~US$70B AUM private equity investment platform and Telstra is the ~US$30B market capitalization communications services company, headquartered in Australia.

Cooley

Cooley LLP is an international law firm representing clients across a wide range of industries from our offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. Cooley has more than 1300 lawyers across 17 offices in Asia, Europe and the United States. The firm represents 6,000+ high-growth new economy companies, 500+ venture fund families and closes over 2,000 venture and growth investments per year.

In Asia, Cooley has offices in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. In Singapore, Cooley is broadly recognized for its powerhouse fund formation, emerging companies and venture capital practices. We represent some of Asia’s most innovative and dynamic companies and leading investors, advising on their financings, M&As and joint ventures, IPOs and other strategic transactions at all stages of their growth.

Our dedication to Asia's fund industry is unparalleled and unrivaled by any other law firm.  Cooley has been advising on Asia-related matters for over thirty years, since the firm advised on the formation of the first institutional venture capital fund investing in China in 1989. Today, we are counsel to more than 500 private investment fund organizations globally.

Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street’s 80+ investment professionals focus on five strategies: primary fund partnerships, secondary transactions, co-investments, direct growth equity company investments, and private credit deals. Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles by drawing on nearly 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships. The firm is 100% employee-owned and has $45 billion in assets under management. Adams Street maintains a worldwide presence with offices in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Allvue Systems

Allvue Systems is a leading provider of investment management solutions for fund managers, investors, and administrators in the alternative investments industry. The company offers innovative, configurable investment software with an integrated front-to-back solution that empowers superior investment decisions by eliminating the barriers between systems, information, and people, and streamlining investment processes. With a commitment to product enhancements and innovation, and a complete focus on private capital and credit managers, Allvue helps firms make better investment decisions, allowing them to spend less time getting information and more time using it.

Affinity Equity Partners

Affinity Equity Partners is an independently owned private equity fund managers established in March 2004 following the spin-off of the UBS Capital Asia Pacific team, the successful private equity arm of UBS AG in the region.  Affinity raised its fifth fund of US$6.0 billion in December 2017.  Affinity currently advises and manages approximately US$14 billion of funds and assets, making it one of the largest independent financial sponsors in the region. Affinity operates out of 6 offices: Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Sydney, Beijing and Jakarta.