BDA recruits Asia secondaries specialist
BDA Partners, a global boutique investment bank that focuses on Asia, has entered the private capital advisory (PCA) space with the appointment of secondaries specialist Dominik Woessner.
Based in Singapore, Woessner has two decades of advisory experience, most recently with Thrive Alternatives, which he joined in 2021 to lead the buildout of a secondaries practice. Before that, Woessner spent three years at Lazard as head of secondaries for Asia Pacific and nearly 10 years at Cogent Partners, before and after its acquisition by Greenhill & Co.
He has worked on GP-led and LP-led transactions involving managers and assets in Greater China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. This skillset will now be applied at BDA as the firm looks to deepen its advisory services for financial sponsors and their investors across a variety of portfolio and fund management scenarios.
Dominik will provide strategic advisory services to financial sponsor GPs across a variety of portfolio and fund management objectives. He will also advise LPs on liquidity solutions for their private fund portfolios. He has successfully closed dozens of transactions with clients in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea and Singapore.
“We’ve got to know Dominik as a leading practitioner in the PCA space and, in addition to being already well known to many BDA clients, he brings with him extensive institutional investor relationships and a track record of successful PCA transactions across Asia, creating a great fit with BDA’s existing platform,” said Andrew Huntley, a managing partner at BDA, in a statement.
BDA advises on cross-border M&A, capital raising, and financial restructuring transactions with teams working out of New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, and Tokyo.
This is not the first time the firm has explored expansion into complementary verticals. In 2020, it recruited Bert Kwan from Northstar Group to launch BDA Capital Partners, an Asian investment platform. However, raising third-party capital proved challenging amid the pandemic and Kwan departed within two years.
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