KPMG Korea

Samjong KPMG provides Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities.

KPMG Global Network
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing audit, tax and advisory services. We have more than 207,000 (over 3,400 in Samjong KPMG) outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 153 countries worldwide.

History of Samjong KPMG
Samjong KPMG has realized a substantial growth over the years and been named a trusted service provider by its clients with clear understanding of the clients’ issues and providing the services addressing such issues.

World-class Services: The Clear Choice
As the Korean member firm of KPMG International, Samjong KPMG declared The Clear Choice as our Vision 2020. Samjong KPMG provides one-stop services throughout the field of audit, tax, deal advisory and consulting services with its expertise and experiences in various industries.

Corporate Transparency
With a strong belief on our principle—the wellness of a firm is determined by the transparency of its management—Samjong KPMG has been transparent with its business performance. For our clients, Samjong KPMG is committing constant efforts to enhance its corporate value by continuing to develop as a ‘Clean Firm’.

Adams Street Partners

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Drawing on 45+ years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships, Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and has approximately $40 billion in assets under management. Adams Street has offices in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Affirma Capital

Affirma Capital is the newly formed, independent emerging market private equity firm owned and operated by the long-standing senior leadership of Standard Chartered Private Equity. We manage over US$3.5 billion in assets for leading global limited partners and sovereign wealth funds.

Affirma Capital helps build and nurture national and regional champions by investing in companies backed by strong management teams and founders. Throughout the management teams’ 17-year history of investing in emerging markets, we have deployed over US$6 billion in 100 companies across Asia, Africa and the Middle East and have returned over US$5 billion in cash proceeds to our investors at highly attractive rates of return. Our senior leadership spent over 10 years working together at Standard Chartered Private Equity prior to founding Affirma Capital.

Our investment philosophy, focused on selective origination, disciplined deal structuring and intensive portfolio management, has helped us build a superior track record with realized returns at a significant premium to the MSCI Emerging markets index.

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.

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 establishment in 1999, CVC Asia has raised 4 dedicated Asia funds with total commitment of over US$10 billion. As of 30 September 2019, CVC Asia has completed over 60 investments in the region.

Recent Asian investments include:

• MAP Active: the #1 retailer and distributor for sport-related and children-related products in Indonesia with more than 900 stores nationwide
• Arteria: the largest independent enterprise broadband network operators in Japan with well invested nationwide fibre network
• Nirvana: the largest pan-Asian integrated bereavement services provider, with operations across Southeast Asia
• RKE: China’s #1 foreign toll road operator
• Good Choice: Korea’s #2 provider of online accommodation booking services
• UnitedLex: India’s tech-based technology based enterprise legal services provider

As of 30 September 2019, CVC Asia consists of 51 investment professionals across 9 offices in the region.

Hahn & Company

Founded in 2010, Hahn & Co. is a private equity investment firm focused on making corporate acquisitions and investments in Korea. Based in Seoul, Hahn & Co. primarily acquires controlling positions in companies with a focus on situations in which it believes value can be derived by bringing to bear the firm’s expertise and experience as owners and operators of businesses. Hahn & Co. manages the largest Korea country fund raised to date and has invested more capital than any private equity firm in Korea since the firm’s inception.

Lexington Partners

Lexington Partners is one of the world’s largest and most successful independent managers of secondary private equity and co-investment funds. Since 1990, Lexington Partners has organized 20 secondary funds and 9 co-investment pools with total commitments of $52 billion. Our investors include more than 1,000 leading public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices from more than 40 countries. Lexington has acquired over 3,300 secondary and co-investment interests through more than 850 transactions with a total value in excess of $56 billion, including $15 billion of syndications. Lexington also invests in private investment funds during their initial formation and has committed to more than 450 primary funds. Lexington Partners is a global firm with offices located in major centers for private equity and alternative investing – New York, Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago and Luxembourg.  In addition, Lexington has senior advisors located in Asia, Australia, and the United States.

Strategic Year

Strategic Year Holdings Limited (“Strategic Year”) is a private investment holding company.  The Founder of Strategic Year has 20 years of private equity investment experience in the Asia Pacific region. We adopt a value-oriented investment approach, utilizing our extensive local networks to originate and execute proprietary investment opportunities. We also spend tremendous efforts adding value to our investees.

Over the past 20 years, we have accumulated significant investment experience in the following sectors: education and professional services consumer, TMT, environmental products/services, natural resources/mining, advanced manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, retail, logistics, energy and alternative energy, and financial services.

We have always been a value-added investor. The areas of value-add that we have been providing to our portfolio companies include: business development, bolt on acquisitions or divestitures, board membership, strategic review, sales and marketing initiatives, human resource matters, subsequent fund raising, capital market access etc.

Our strategy is to leverage our local networks to originate and execute proprietary, value-oriented investment opportunities, maximizing value for our portfolio companies and their various stakeholders.  We believe this proactive and value-oriented approach will benefit our investors and ourselves through time.

Top Tier Capital Partners

Top Tier Capital Partners is a San Francisco-based registered investment adviser building customized venture capital portfolios. With over $6.8 billion in regulatory assets under management (as of December 31, 2018), Top Tier offers funds and customized solutions by investing in primary and secondary investments in venture capital and growth equity funds and co-investments in select portfolio companies.

Top Tier’s value-add lies in the experience, deep networks, industry insights, and superior client service accumulated over two decades in Silicon Valley. When selecting managers, Top Tier uses both quantitative and qualitative data, including their proprietary database (The Mine), which holds extensive data regarding market dynamics for potential exits. Using this balanced approach to due diligence and access, the team seeks to create diverse portfolios that are built to spot emerging trends early and to deliver optimal venture returns.