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 fourth external 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.

Bain Capital

Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private multi-asset alternative investment firms with over $105 billion of assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into several asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital and real estate. We leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus. With offices on four continents, our global team aligns our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.

Baring Private Equity Asia

Baring Private Equity Asia (BPEA) has been investing in the Asia Pacific region since its formation in 1997. Today it is one of the largest and most established private alternative investment firms in Asia, with total committed capital of over USD16 billion.

The firm runs a pan-Asian investment program, sponsoring buyouts and providing growth capital to companies for expansion or acquisitions, as well as a private credit and a pan-Asian real estate private equity investment program. BPEA has over 160 employees located across offices in Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore.

BPEA currently has over 30 portfolio companies active across Asia with a total of 158,000 employees and sales of approximately USD30 billion.

CVC

CVC was established in 1981 and is a world leader in private equity and credit, with over $111 billion of funds committed and a global network of 24 local offices: 15 across Europe and the Americas and nine in the Asia Pacific region. CVC's private equity platform manages over $50 billion of assets and comprises four strategies: Europe/Americas; Asia; Strategic Opportunities; and Growth Partners, each of which benefits from CVC's global platform.

In Asia, CVC has one of the largest and longest-established pan-regional office networks of any private equity business and has been active in the region since 1999.  CVC's 47 investment professionals comprise a deep bench of senior leaders with extensive local knowledge and a strong track record of leading successful private equity investments in Asia.

Alvarez & Marsal

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) when conventional approaches are not enough to activate change and achieve results.

A&M's dedicated Global Private Equity Services team provides independent analysis across the investment lifecycle that delivers results for investors and their portfolio companies. We integrate our financial, tax, commercial and operational expertise to seamlessly translate pre-due diligence findings and leverage our interim management approach to deliver post-deal operational improvements.

Privately-held since 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that delivers business performance improvement, turnaround management and advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Our senior professionals are experienced operators, world-class consultants and industry veterans who leverage the firm's restructuring heritage to help leaders turn change into a strategic business asset, manage risk and unlock value at every stage.

Barclays

Barclays is a transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US.

With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 80,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

CarVal Investors

CarVal Investors, a leading global alternative asset manager, is focused on distressed and credit-intensive assets and market inefficiencies. Since 1987, CarVal’s experienced team has navigated through ever-changing credit market cycles, opportunistically investing $114 billion in 5,340 transactions across 80 countries. Today, CarVal Investors has $10 billion in assets under management in both credit and real estate strategies.

China Creation Ventures (CCV)

China Creation Ventures (CCV) was founded by the former KPCB China Managing Partner, Wei Zhou, and his TMT investment team of many years in KPCB China. CCV focuses on early stage and growth stage companies in TMT industry in China.

The companies they invested at early stage include JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), CreditEase (NYSE:YRD), Rong360 (NYSE:JT), ID5.com, Himalaya FM, Tan Tan Mobile Social (acquired by Momo, NASDAQ: MOMO), VenusTech (SZ:002439), Manzuo.com (acquired by SuNing), Miaopai Mobile Video (Yixia.com), ULUCU (NEEQ:837110), Miaozhen Systems, Asia Innovation Group, Meican.com, Scinor Water (acquired by TRCE:300332), KJY Water (NEEQ:835159), Arrail Dental,Wanka Online (HKSE:1762), Perfect Corp, Ice Kredit,Veer VR, Menya, Bizvane, Joyrun, Cowa Robot, Lomotif, Dingdong Class, Shukun Technology,etc.

CCV has been widely recognized by almost 50 industry medias and institutions within one and a half year, including China’s Top 5 Most Influential Venture Capitals by Sina, LP’S Favorite VC by 36kr.com, Annual Business Hunter by Economic Weekly, China’s Top 30 Internet Investment Institutions by Zero2IPO, China’s 15 Best Early-stage Investment Funds by FoFs, China’s 3 Most Growth-able Investment Institutions by CV, Best VC Top 20 by Hunting Cloud Network, and Annual Best New Investment Institute by Zero2IPO Group, China Venture, The Beijing News, China Investment, Small Table, etc.

China Renaissance Capital Investment (CRCI)

China Renaissance Capital Investment (CRCI) is an independent mid-market private equity investment manager focused on investment in companies in services, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing. Founded in 2005, CRCI manages China Harvest Funds, providing growth capital and making buyout investments in its focused sectors.

It is an essential investment philosophy of CRCI to fund companies that are led by strong entrepreneurs where Partners of CRCI can add substantial value through their prior business operation, advisory and principal investing experiences in the Greater China market. CRCI currently has a team of 40 professionals with offices located in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.

Coller Capital

Coller Capital is one of the world's leading investors in private equity's secondary market. The firm acquires interests in private equity funds and portfolios of private companies from their original owners.

Founded in 1990, the firm is headquartered in London, and has offices in New York and Hong Kong. Coller’s multinational investment team – the world’s largest dedicated to secondaries – has a truly global reach.

In December 2015, the firm closed Coller International Partners VII, with capital commitments of $7.15 billion and backing from approximately 170 of the world’s leading institutional investors.

EQT

Having a long-term, responsible and sustainable approach to ownership is EQT's way of creating value, for investors, in portfolio companies and society at large.

EQT invests in good companies across the world with a mission to help them develop into great and sustainable companies. By providing access to ownership skills and operational expertise, EQT help acquired companies grow and prosper, both under EQT's ownership and with future owners. EQT has three overall investment strategies – Private Capital, Real Assets and Credit – guided by a responsible ownership approach and an industrial growth strategy.

Approximately EUR 50 billion has been raised from over 600 global professional investors across 27 funds. EQT has invested more than EUR 22 billion in 210+ portfolio companies and today, EQT owns more than 100 companies in a variety of industries across the world with c. 110,000 employees.

The most tangible result of the EQT Business Model is that portfolio companies have on average increased the number of employees by 10%, sales by 10% and earnings by 11% annually during EQT Equity funds’ ownership. Almost all of the return on investments is attributed to operational improvements such as increased sales and efficiency gains.

Gaja Capital

Gaja Capital is a leading private equity firm in India’s mid-market. Gaja Capital is a high-touch and control focused firm with team of strong operating professionals. Gaja Capital seeks to partner with entrepreneurs and professionals to build the future champions of Indian economy in high growth sectors of education, financial services, consumer and healthcare. Gaja Capital is currently investing out of its third fund, a US$ 240 mn fund with commitments from marquee global investors US endowments, pension funds and foundations. The firm has an AUM of USD 450 mn including the previous two funds.

Gaja Capital was founded in 2004 by indigenous professionals with extensive operating and investing experience in India. With an exceptional network of some of India's most successful entrepreneurs, Gaja Capital has leveraged its deep local connect to partner with emerging businesses in India.

Hamilton Lane

Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ: HLNE) is a leading alternative investment management firm providing innovative private markets solutions to sophisticated investors around the world. Dedicated to private markets investing for 27 years, the firm currently employs 360 professionals operating in offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East. With approximately $469 billion in total assets under management and supervision as of December 31, 2018, Hamilton Lane offers a full range of investment products and services that enable clients to participate in the private markets asset class on a global and customized basis. For more information, please follow Hamilton Lane on Twitter: @hamilton_lane.

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.

Loyal Valley Capital

Loyal Valley Capital (LVC) is a thematic, research-driven private equity firm with strong entrepreneurial culture that invests in middle market companies positioned to benefit from secular industry transformation in China. With over US$1.3 Billion of committed capital, LVC mainly focuses on the following segments: New Consumer (Media, Entertainment and Education), Healthcare and also covers Specialty Industrials and Financial Services. Our investment process is characterized by in-depth top-down and bottom-up fundamental research to uncover secular themes and extensive industry mapping to deploy capital in a high conviction and disciplined approach. We pride ourselves as a trusted influential shareholder relentlessly focused on active value creation, accelerating growth via strategic initiatives and our extensive network of business leaders in China. LVC manages capital on behalf of international institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds, funds of funds and family offices, as well as elite entrepreneurs and founders of China’s Fortune 500 enterprises.

LVC was founded in 2015 by Andy Lin, an experienced investor and accomplished entrepreneur. He is the founder of China Universal Asset Management (“CUAM”), one of China’s top asset managers with over US$70B in AUM, known for its industry leading research and award-winning investment records.

Madison India

Madison India Capital is one of India’s leading private investment firms specializing in the consumer, business services, technology and financial services 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 strive to build long-term partnerships with talented management teams of high growth, market-leading, middle market companies in India.  Each of the senior principals on our team has on average 20 years of experience operating or investing in companies in our industries of focus.  We are backed by industry veterans, U.S. financial institutions, pension funds as well as global fund of funds.

Ocean Link

Ocean Link is a pioneering consumer PE fund with a focus on China’s travel and leisure sectors. Through a USD fund and an RMB Fund, Ocean Link currently has over US$700 million under management. With teams in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong, Ocean Link invests across the value chain and sub-verticals of the travel and leisure sectors, including online & offline travel services, hotels and resorts management companies, destination services and entertainment, sector-related technology and business solutions providers. Ocean Link actively applies its deep sector insights and network to create value every step along investment life cycle.

Ocean Link’s strategic partners and shareholders include Ctrip - the largest online travel agency in China, and General Atlantic - a leading global growth equity firm. The funds’ LPs include Chinese and global corporates, financial institutions, and sovereign wealth funds.

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Permira

Permira is a global investment firm that finds and backs successful businesses with growth ambition. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with a total committed capital of approximately €32 billion. The Permira funds make long-term investments in companies with the ambition of transforming their performance and driving sustainable growth. In the past 32 years, the Permira funds have made over 200 private equity investments in five key sectors: Consumer, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials and Technology. Permira employs over 240 people in 14 offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

ShawKwei & Partners

ShawKwei & Partners is a private equity fund manager with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. We invest in mid-market industrial and service companies operating across Asia.

We have been in Asia for over 25 years. Our deep knowledge and experience enables us to understand the unique challenges faced by Asian companies competing in today’s global markets.

We take significant ownership stakes in our investments coupled with a disciplined and hands-on management of those investments. Our investment philosophy is to guide companies to build better businesses and achieve long-term success.

The ShawKwei strategy, methods and practices are specially crafted for private equity investments in businesses operating in Asia. Together they form the partnership between ShawKwei and our portfolio companies.

Strait Capital

Strait Capital Investment Group is an Asia-based private equity company that specializes in providing growth capital to companies in the consumer-related, healthcare services, and entertainment sectors in Asia. The firm was established in 2013 by three founding members who have worked together for over 15 years and served as investment professional in Asia since the 1990s. The team has a track record of generating top-tier returns over 60 transactions amounting to approximately US$1 billion in Asia. Strait Capital Investment Group manages approximately US$240 million and currently has eight investment professionals located in Taipei and Shanghai.

China Consumer Fund, Fund I, has US$192 million under management, 78% from institutional investors and 22% from family office, with geographical spread 45% from Japan and 55% from Taiwan. We are seeking investment opportunities equipped with significant minority interests, market leading position, sound management expertise, and interests and vision that aligned with the firm’s strategy as well as potential of accelerated growth. The team has established a reputation to grow with its portfolio companies through value creation and it is steadfast in its approach. 

The Longreach Group

The Longreach Group is an established independent private equity firm with offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The firm focuses on Japan and related Greater China control buyouts in the mature industrial and technology, consumer, business services and financial services sectors. The firm manages three Funds which have accumulated approximately US$2.1 billion of committed limited partner and co-investment capital and has a strong track record of portfolio company value creation and realizations.

Longreach currently has 13 investment professionals located in Tokyo and Hong Kong. The firm also enjoys the support of prominent and highly committed Advisors located in Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai, New York, London and San Francisco.

Unison Capital

Unison Capital, originally founded in 1998 by three founding members, operates mid-cap buyout funds in Japan and Korea. In Japan, Unison Capital is widely recognized as a pioneer in the industry and has the longest track record in its space. In 2014, Unison Capital expanded in Korea to apply its well-tested mid-cap strategy and harness its deep Japan network for value-add.

Since its inception, Unison has launched four Japan-focused funds and invested in 29 companies with 20 exits. Today, Unison manages JPY 70 billion (~$700 million) for Fund IV. In Korea, Unison Capital raised KRW 307 billion (~$280 million) for its debut fund and has four portfolio companies and one exit was completed in September 2017. To date, cumulative investment amounts are JPY 850 billion (~$8 billion) and KRW 320 billion (~$280 million) in enterprise value, respectively.

Unison’s Tokyo and Seoul office are comprised of 30 investment professionals, having diverse professional backgrounds in finance, strategy consulting and operations. Furthermore, Unison’s broader network extends to in-house management advisers, financial institutions, consulting firms, and other experts in two countries and beyond to drive the robust growth of our portfolio companies.

Värde Partners

Värde Partners is a nearly $14 billion global alternative investment firm that employs a value-based approach to investing across a broad array of geographies, segments and asset types, including corporate credit, specialty finance, real estate, mortgages, energy, real assets and infrastructure. The firm sponsors and manages a family of private investment funds with a global investor base that includes foundations and endowments, pension plans, insurance companies, other institutional investors and private clients. Now in its third decade, Värde employs more than 300 people globally with regional headquarters in Minneapolis, London and Singapore.

HighLight Capital

HighLight Capital is striving to be the best healthcare investment fund in China. HighLight Capital is dedicated to support healthcare companies to generate robust and sustained growth prospect in China and to partner with entrepreneurs with dedication and highest standard.

HighLight Capital currently manages both RMB & USD fund. We invest in subsectors such as health service, medical device and biotech. Since inception in 2014, we have closed over 40 deals including Mindray(300760), Phamaron (300759), Yuwell (002223), WUXI(603259), Linhwa (835637), STA(832159), Kintor (839419), BAHEAL, Sansure Biotech, Zylox Medical, Kintour Medical, Malo Clinic, Rabbit Dental, ChaoJu Hospital, Dr.Cuiyutao Healthcare, etc.

Jungle Ventures

Jungle is a Singapore based Venture Capital Firm that invests in and helps build tech category leaders from Asia. Jungle has a dedicated team of operating partners and functional experts to support startups as they scale across the region or globally. The firm recently closed its second fund at US$100M, backed by leading institutions and family offices.

Long Hill Capital

Founded in 2016, Long Hill Capital is a next-generation thesis-driven venture capital firm based in China with over $400M of capital under management. The firm invests in technology-enabled healthcare and consumer companies that seek to massively improve health and quality of life for every Chinese.

From 2005 to 2015 the founding partner of Long Hill Capital led the on-the-ground China investing practice for global investment firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which achieved over $500 million in realized investment returns. Together the Long Hill Capital team have over 40 years of investment experience from such firms as NEA, Matrix, and Morningside VC, and over 20 years of operating experience at some of the most successful technology and healthcare companies.

Vickers Venture Partners

Vickers Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on venture capital investments in Asia and beyond. Founded in 2005 by Dr. Finian Tan and his partners, Drs. Khalil Binebine, Jeffrey Chi and Ms. Linda Li, Vickers manages 5 funds and proprietary capital to date, with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and a presence in California and New York. The portfolio covers technology, media, and telecommunications as well as consumer, life sciences and financial services.

Track Record:

Vickers has invested in and led co-investments for a total of $880 million in 50 early stage companies across five funds.  The total value as of Q2’18 is $2.91 billion, a gross multiple of 3.23x over invested capital and a net multiple of 2.85x. Three out of five funds are currently in the top quartile when compared to Preqin’s database and Vickers Fund IV is currently the best performing vintage 2012 fund.

Highly Experienced Team with Local Markets Presence:

The Vickers team brings significant expertise and experience growing emerging companies.  Founded in 2005 by Dr. Finian Tan and his three partners, Vickers has offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore and a presence in California and New York.  The four partners are supported by five Managing Directors.

Proprietary Sourcing:

Highly differentiated network of prospective investments.  Network built over 13 years from a combination of market recognition of high profile past successes, a growing prior investment pipeline and active out-reach by the firm’s principals. Vickers consistently reviews over 6,000 deals a year with, on average, ten investments coming to fruition.

Proven Investment Process:

The firm’s Investment Committee operates a proprietary risk allocation model and deal filtering process. This is an iterative process that is continuously reviewed and honed to maximize the best risk reward in portfolio.  This process has led to 66% success rate for early stage investments; approximately 54% of successful transactions have generated at least a 5x MOIC or 25% IRR.

HarbourVest Partners

HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets investment specialist with more than 35 years of experience and more than $50 billion in assets under management. The Firm’s powerful global platform offers clients investment opportunities through primary fund investments, secondary investments, and direct co-investments in commingled funds or separately managed accounts. HarbourVest has more than 400 employees, including more than 100 investment professionals across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. This global team has committed more than $34 billion to newly-formed funds, completed over $19 billion in secondary purchases, and invested over $8 billion directly in operating companies. Partnering with HarbourVest, clients have access to customized solutions, longstanding relationships, actionable insights, and proven results.

Merrill Corporation

Merrill Corporation is a leading global SaaS provider for participants engaging in financial transactions. Clients trust Merrill’s innovative applications, excellent customer service and deep subject expertise to successfully navigate the secure sharing of their most sensitive content. Their flagship product, DatasiteOne, helps dealmakers in over 170 countries close more deals, faster.

Alvarez & Marsal

Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) when conventional approaches are not enough to activate change and achieve results.

A&M's dedicated Global Private Equity Services team provides independent analysis across the investment lifecycle that delivers results for investors and their portfolio companies. We integrate our financial, tax, commercial and operational expertise to seamlessly translate pre-due diligence findings and leverage our interim management approach to deliver post-deal operational improvements.

Privately-held since 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that delivers business performance improvement, turnaround management and advisory services to organizations seeking to transform operations, catapult growth and accelerate results through decisive action. Our senior professionals are experienced operators, world-class consultants and industry veterans who leverage the firm's restructuring heritage to help leaders turn change into a strategic business asset, manage risk and unlock value at every stage.

Alter Domus

Alter Domus is a global fund and corporate services provider but more importantly, we’re experts in local business. Our 2,000 qualified accountants, corporate secretaries, consolidators and other professionals are expertly skilled in the intricacies of their jurisdictions. When working with a team which combines local knowledge with international best practices, you benefit from enhanced legal, financial and regulatory compliance for funds, SPVs, holding companies and corporate entities. With global reporting and a single point of contact across all 40 offices and desks, you get a world of expertise working with you to meet your goals.

Preqin

Preqin is the home of alternative assets, providing indispensable data, solutions and insights to support alternative asset professionals at every stage of the investment cycle. Since 2003, we have been the most trusted source of information on alternative assets, spanning private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, infrastructure, private debt, natural resources and secondaries. Our products and services are relied upon by more than 60,000 industry participants in over 90 countries, for a range of activities including fundraising, investor relations, asset allocation, fund manager selection and business development. Preqin is an independent business with over 400 staff based in New York, London, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Manila.