Articles by Brian McLeod
The restructuring expert
The Chairman of distressed debt investment giant Oaktree Capital spoke with AVCJ about market challenges, his firm’s relationship to private equity, and where the next wave of opportunities lie.
Frontier markets investments showcase growth and opportunity
Recent activity out of Cambodia showcases the opportunities in frontier markets, in spite of the risks and uncertainties that these countries also present. In January, Leopard Capital, through its Leopard Cambodia Fund, took a 33.7% stake in Intean Poalroath...
CHAMP Private Equity acquires Constellation Brands' UK and Australian business
Leading world premium wine purveyor Constellation Brands Inc. announced just before Christmas that it had reached agreement with Sydney-based CHAMP Private Equity to sell its UK and Australian interests (Constellation Wines Australia & Europe – CWAE)...
New horizons in Southeast Asia
Private equity investment in Indonesia surged in 2010; but the reality of investment opportunity in places like Indonesia and Vietnam requires more than macro growth numbers
The cleantech sector: renewable?
Since the COP15 debacle in Denmark nearly a year ago, it has been more or less all downhill for the clean/green sector that as recently as 2008 looked to be on the threshold of political and market breakthroughs – notably in carbon pricing – that most...
Quorumm Digital Venture Partners appoints Hasnain Zaheer senior partner for Australia
Third-generation VC Quorumm Digital Venture Partners – which has an investment war chest of some $500 million – has appointed experienced digital strategist and online marketing practitioner, analyst and trainer Hasnain Zaheer as senior partner of its...
Indian private equity's characteristics
Even though the Indian economy is booming as never before, the private equity market is facing several barriers to entry.
Chinese M&A lawyer Chow joins Davis Polk
Global law firm Davis Polk has announced that leading PRC and Hong Kong M&A lawyer Paul Chow will join the firm as a partner in their Hong Kong office.
Bery, JPMorgan reach amicable conclusion
JPMorgan and Varun Bery have jointly announced that they have reached an amicable resolution to their recent dispute, which will result in the latter providing private equity consultancy services to JPMorgan.
LPs back on course
While private equity funding sources continue to diversify, traditional limited partners remain the sine qua non of how the asset class survives and thrives.
Fund administration: the silver lining post GFC
It's interesting to note how far – and how deeply – GFC shockwaves reached into private equity practice, even at the shop-floor level, in fund management and administration.
India's all-inclusive infrastructure rollout
Huge infrastructure development schemes have been underway across most of Asia’s developing economies for some years now, especially in India and China.
BHP end game for PotashCorp?
The tussle for control of Canadian fertilizer behemoth PotashCorp took another turn on October 14th, when news broke that premier Chinese chemicals SOE Sinochem Corp. had decided against a counteroffer to rival the $39 billion hostile bid by Australian-based...
Australian private equity: Behind the numbers
Judging by current data, one might think that Australian private equity has seen the best of times become the not-quite-so-good times.
Inside India's infra riddle
The Athletes' Village furor that erupted in Delhi on the eve of the Commonwealth Games has shone a strong spotlight on the reality of India’s landscape, and its problems delivering improvements in infrastructure.
Sandstone, Sequoia, Madison take minority stake in Micromax
Subcontinent specialist Sandstone Capital and Silicon Valley VC icon Sequoia Capital, as well as media and communications-focused firm Madison India Capital, have taken a small position – collectively estimated at less than 10% - in Indian handset producer...
Alinta's future hinges on private equity consortium deal
Australian power generation company Alinta Energy Group has been in talks with TPG Capital’s debt investment arm, TPG Opportunities Partners, to restructure the company, pending the outcome of an earlier proposal by the company for trade sales plus an...
China M&A: Leaps and bounds
Chinese M&A activity isn’t just recovering post-GFC.
Potash a hot commodity
When Canadian fertilizers mining leader PotashCorp formally rejected Australia-headquartered resources major BHP Billiton’s $130-per-share, $39 billion takeover bid last week, expectations were triggered that multiple higher bids would emerge from some...
Funding Asian infrastructure: The ancillary factors
With infrastructure funds still evolving in terms of their structure, and more and more shifting focus to Asia, participants in the sector are reporting a shift from the original dividend yield story as the focal point to much more of a capital appreciation...
New regulations in Europe: the perils of painting with a broad brush
While new alternative asset regulation in the US is more or less a done deal, the European attempt to accomplish the same remains stalled.
CIC to fund Liverpool FC bid?
Despite China Investment Corporation’s (CIC) proclamation that it won’t be involved in the purchase of top-tier English Premier League’s Liverpool Football Club – and that it has never even heard of Kenny Huang, the Hong Kong sports businessman CIC is...
New private equity regulation: industry crisis averted, or postponed?
For many months now, the private equity segment in the US – whose rules and norms still set the terms for industry practice in Asia Pacific as elsewhere – has been beset by creeping insecurity.
Limited Partner Q&A: International Finance Corporation
AVCJ’s Brian McLeod talks to David Wilton, CIO of the Private Equity and Investment Funds Department at the International Finance Corporation, the private finance arm of the World Bank