VIDEO: CLSA Capital Partners' Christopher Seaver
Why are you still captive? Christopher Seaver, CEO of CLSA Capital Partners, is asked this question by LPs all the time. And the answer is rooted in parent company CLSA’s history as an independent brokerage and research house, albeit with a few investment banking activities tacked on
"The drivers that pushed investment banks to divest their PE businesses don't necessarily pertain to us," Seaver tells AVCJ TV. "CLSA has never done what the large US and European investment banks have...
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