
Voting closes today for the 2013 AVCJ Awards
Voting for the 2013 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards closes today.
Please click here to have your say on the leading fundraises, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past 12 months.
Full details of the awards process, rules and past winners can be found at the AVCJ Awards website (www.avcjforum.com/awards). No more than 10 votes will be accepted from the employees of a single firm. The public has a 50% say in the final outcome, with a judging panel of industry experts and the AVCJ Editorial Board each accounting for 25%.
Based in part on recommendations submitted by the private equity community, the AVCJ Editorial Board drew up nominee shortlists in consultation with the judging panel.
The nominees in each category are as follows:
FUNDRAISING OF THE YEAR
- FountainVest China Growth Fund II (FountainVest Partners)
- KKR Asian Fund II (KKR)
- L Capital Asia II (L Capital Asia)
- MBK Partners III (MBK Partners)
- Southern Capital Fund III (Southern Capital Group)
VENTURE CAPITAL DEAL OF THE YEAR
- 360Buy (Kingdom Holding/Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan/Tiger Global)
- App Annie (BV Capital/Sequoia Capital/Infinity Fund Management/IDG Capital Partners/Greycroft Partners)
- Flipkart Online Services (Naspers/Tiger Global/Accel Partners/Iconiq Capital)
- Tujia (CDH Investments/Qiming Venture Partners/GGV Capital/Lightspeed China/Ctrip/HomeAway)
- YouXinPai (Legend Capital/Bertelsmann Asia Investments/DCM/Tencent Collaboration Fund)
PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
- ING Life Insurance Korea (MBK Partners)
- Inghams Enterprises (TPG Capital)
- Loen Entertainment (Affinity Equity Partners)
- Panasonic Healthcare (KKR)
- S.F. Express Group (CITIC Capital/Boyu Capital/Oriza Holdings/China Merchants Group/China Development Bank)
EXIT OF THE YEAR
- Bank Tabungan Pensiunan Nasional (Northstar Group/TPG Capital)
- China Pacific Insurance (The Carlyle Group)
- Intelligence Holdings (KKR)
- Komeda's Coffee (Advantage Partners)
- Matahari Department Store (CVC Capital Partners)
VENTURE CAPITAL PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- Edward Tian (CBC Capital)
- Richard Liu (Morningside Technologies)
- Ravi Adusumalli (SAIF India)
- Lei Jun (Shunwei Capital Partners)
- David Wei (Vision Knight Capital)
PRIVATE EQUITY PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
- Zhen Jiao (CDH Investments)
- Sigit Prasetya (CVC Capital Partners)
- Joseph Bae (KKR)
- Michael B. Kim (MBK Partners)
- Richard Ong (RRJ Capital)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
- Baring Private Equity Asia
- CDH Investments
- KKR
- MBK Partners
- Quadrant Private Equity
Winners in the above categories - plus the recipients of the Operational Value Add Award and the AVCJ Special Achievement Award - will be announced at an invitation-only gala dinner in Hong Kong on November 11, preceding the AVCJ Forum, which runs from November 12-14.
A roundup of the evening will appear in that week's issue of the Asian Venture Capital Journal, released on November 13, and there will be in-depth coverage of all the winners in the December 3 issue of the magazine.
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