Buyouts still viable in Asia Pacific: ANZ Forum
GPs, LP and other market players at the AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum \ ANZ 2010 confirmed that they feel buyouts are still viable deals in Asia Pacific, as long as targets are exceptionally strong.
Justin Reizes, Partner with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in Australia, explained that the Oriental Brewery deal which KKR did with Affinity Equity Partners in Korea last year, "could only get done in...
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