KPMG Japan

KPMG is a leading provider of Audit, Tax and Advisory services to private equity worldwide. We respond to business challenges facing private equity with a global perspective and local knowledge spanning industry sectors. Our high-performing people mobilise around our clients, using our expertise to deliver informed perspectives and clear solutions that our clients and stakeholders value.

The KPMG Private Equity group brings together our leading transaction advisory, deal origination, operational value creation, and tax professionals who work full time helping private equity funds to achieve their goals. We combine industry expertise with a deep understanding of the requirements of private equity as we search out the value enhancing attributes of each deal and provide integrated support over the entire investment cycle.

KPMG Private Equity professionals help clients execute deals with greater insight, speed, and decision-making quality.  Post investment, we help private equity funds and their portfolio companies identify and execute on value growth opportunities in a diverse range of areas such as aligning IT strategy with the business model, optimizing working capital and operating processes to unlock cash and grow earnings, digitally transforming the business to leverage new technologies, and many others.  Depending on the exit route, we also help prepare companies for IPO or manage the sales process. In addition, we help private equity and their portfolio achieve effective tax compliance and manage tax risks while controlling costs and enhancing returns.

KPMG – Dedicated to Private Equity.  Dedicated to your success.

Adams Street Partners

Founded in 1972, Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager, operating in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street prides itself on the depth and breadth of its global investment capabilities, and its long-standing reputation as an innovator within the private markets space. Adams Street is consistently recognized for its steadfast commitment to providing clients with high quality investment opportunities, and its deep understanding of the broader private markets industry.

With 170+ staff in ten offices located in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo, Adams Street’s deep industry experience and global outlook provides clients with customized access to the spectrum of private markets strategies. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and independent, and manages over $32 billion in assets for more than 370 institutional investors, including corporate and public pensions, foundations, family offices and endowments.

Advantage Partners

Advantage Partners is a leading provider of services to private equity and similar funds focused on the Japanese and Asian markets. Advantage Partners was founded in 1992 by Taisuke Sasanuma and Richard Folsom and has been providing services to funds since 1997, when the firm established the first buyout fund in Japan. Funds served by Advantage Partners have invested in more than 70 companies representing total invested capital of over JPY400 billion across a wide range of industries and sectors. Advantage Partners has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai.

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 $108 billion in 5,300 transactions across 79 countries. Today, CarVal Investors has $11 billion in assets under management in both credit and real estate strategies.

CVC Capital Partners

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 establishment in 1999, CVC Asia has raised 4 dedicated Asia funds with total commitment of over US$10 billion. As of 31 May 2018, CVC Asia has completed 60 investments in the region.

Recent Asian investments include:

• Arteria: the largest independent enterprise broadband network operators in Japan with well invested nationwide fiber network
• Riraku: the largest budget relaxation service chain operator in Japan
• Hitowa: leading provider of senior homes and nurseries in Greater Tokyo, and national franchise cleaning service business
• MAP Active: the #1 retailer and distributor for sport-related and children-related products in Indonesia with more than 900 stores nationwide
• Nirvana: the largest pan-Asian integrated bereavement services provider, with operations across Southeast Asia
• EIC: China’s no.1 overseas educational counseling service provider

As of 31 May 2018, CVC Asia consists of 41 investment professionals across 9 offices in the region.

Globis Capital Partners

Globis Capital Partners is one of Japan's leading independent venture capital firms. With its unique combination of western style investment expertise obtained through a joint venture with Apax Partners and Japan-local business expertise through Globis Group, which runs No.1 MBA program in Japan, Globis has set new VC standards in Japan.

Founded in 1996, Globis is one of the oldest continually operating independent VC firms in Japan. It has actively managed five funds totaling approximately USD 650M, including the fifth fund which was raised in 2016. The majority of LPs are institutional investors both from and outside of Japan. Globis focuses on Japan's high-growth sectors, such as the internet, mobile, e-commerce, social media, and 6-techs (Finance, Healthcare, Education, Auto, Home, Frontier). All closed funds were ranked in the top quartile in global VC in their respective vintage years. *

Globis takes a lead role in a financing round and provides hands-on management support to its portfolio companies. Its key strengths are in the network of talents in the venture ecosystem that Globis Capital Partners has built, and the unequaled experience in guiding portfolio companies to Japanese public markets.

*Source: Cambridge Associates, Globis analysis

HarbourVest Partners ハーバーベスト・パートナーズ･エルエルシー

ハーバーベスト・パートナーズ･エルエルシー（HarbourVest Partners, LLC）は、独立系のグローバル・プライベートマーケットのスペシャリストとして、35年以上の投資経験を持ち、500億ドルを超える資産を運用しています。グローバル規模の強力なプラットフォームを活用し、専用ファンドやコミングルファンドを通じて、投資家にプライマリーファンド投資、セカンダリー投資、および共同投資への投資機会を提供しています。100名以上の投資プロフェッショナルを含む400名を超える従業員がアジア、欧州、アメリカ合衆国で活躍しており、340億ドル以上のプライマリーファンド投資、190億ドル以上のセカンダリー投資、80億ドル以上の事業会社への共同投資を運用しています。弊社とパートナーシップを結ぶことにより、投資家は専用ソリューションや、長期的リレーションシップ、実践的なアイディアおよび優れた投資実績へのアクセスを実現できます。

Jupiter Impact Partners

Jupiter is the brainchild of a team of seasoned and progressive minded investors who share the core belief that sustainable investing holds the key to the future success of Asia. Our aim is to make impactful social and environmental changes through small medium sized enterprises in Asia while generating risk-adjusted returns for our investors.

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.

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 II, has US$190 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 buyouts in Japan in the mature industrial and technology, business services, consumer related, and financial services sectors with a related and selective Greater China focus. The firm manages three Funds with approximately US$1.9 billion of limited partner and co‐investment capital, and has a strong track record of portfolio company value creation and realizations. Longreach is an independent and focused group committed to achieving sustained success for the investment funds it sponsors.

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.