Voting opens for the 2011 AVCJ Awards
We are happy to announce the nominee shortlist for 2011 AVCJ Private Equity and Venture Capital Awards. Relying on submissions from across the PE community and the expertise of our select panel of industry judges, five nominees have been chosen in seven categories. We now throw it open to you, the readers, to have your say.
Please vote online at our newly updated nominations site.
Voting will close on Wednesday, October 26. Winners will be announced at the Awards dinner on November 7, one of the first events of the AVCJ Forum 2011.
The full shortlist is as follows:
DEAL OF THE YEAR
- Cowell e Holdings (Hahn & Co.)
- Hyva Holdings (Unitas Capital)
- Masan Consumer Corp (KKR)
- NZ Poultry (Affinity Equity Partners)
- Tsubaki Nakashima (Carlyle Asia)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
- Affinity Equity Partners
- Archer Capital
- Baring Private Equity Asia
- Carlyle Asia
- Hony Capital
FUNDRAISING OF THE YEAR
- Baring Asia Private Equity Fund V
- CPEChina Fund
- Hahn & Co. I
- Northstar Equity Partners III
- WestBridge Crossover Fund
IPO OF THE YEAR
- Qihoo 360
- Renren
- Samsonite
- Sihuan Pharma
- Yonghui Superstores
TRADE SALE OF THE YEAR
- Beijing Leader & Harvest Technology (Affinity Equity Partners/Unitas Capital)
- CNS (MBK Partners)
- Hsu Fu Chi (Baring Private Equity Asia)
- MYOB (Archer Capital/HarbourVest Partners)
- Paras Pharmaceuticals (Actis)
PRIVATE EQUITY PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- Sumir Chadha (WestBridge Capital)
- Michael Kim (MBK Partners)
- William Shen (Headland Capital Partners)
- Peter Wiggs (Archer Capital)
- X.D. Yang (Carlyle Asia)
VENTURE CAPITAL PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- Pramod Hague (Northwest Venture Partners)
- Neil Shen (Sequioa Capital)
- Sandeep Singhal (Nexus India)
- Nengguang Wang Legend Capital)
- David Zhang (Matrix China)
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