Permira hires former KKR deal-maker as head of Japan

Fujii was previously a member of the deal team at KKR Japan where he helped close a number of high profile deals including Intelligence Holdings and Panasonic Healthcare. Prior to that Fujii was at Goldman Sachs in New York and Tokyo working on financial advisory and principal investment activities for various Japanese companies. He also served as a Japanese government official at the Ministry of Finance.

Furuse joined Permira as a senior adviser in 2007. Before that he held a number of senior management positions at several Japanese companies, including executive vice president and CFO at Sanyo Electric, and senior managing director at Mazda Motor. Prior to that he spent 32 years at Sumitomo Bank where he was member of the board and senior executive director. Furuse is chairman of the board at Japanese sushi chain Akindo Sushiro, and non-executive director at Nitto Denko and Global Logistic Properties.

Permira's most recent Japan deal was its exit from Japanese agricultural chemicals maker Arysta LifeSciences to US chemicals firm Platform Specialty Products (PSP) for about $3.51 billion. The GP currently has active investment in Japan: Akindo Sushiro, which it acquired from Unison Capital in 2012 for $1 billion.

In June last year, Permira reached a final close on its fifth global buyout fund, Permira V, at the hard cap of EUR5.3 billion ($7.2 billion). The new fund will follow the firm's long-term investment strategy of backing market-leading businesses with the potential to expand overseas.

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