Cast your vote in the AVCJ Awards
Voting has opened for the 2012 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards. The region’s private equity community has until October 31 to pay tribute to the leading fundraising, investments, exits, individuals and firms of the past 12 months.
Votes are cast via the AVCJ Awards website (http://www.avcjforum.com/awards). No more than 10 votes will be accepted from employees of a single firm. The public has a 50% say in the final result, 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
• Archer Capital Fund 5 (Archer Capital)
• Bain Capital Asia Fund II (Bain Capital)
• ChrysCapital VI (ChrysCapital Partners)
• Hony Capital Fund V (Hony Capital)
• PAG Asia I (PAG)
PRIVATE EQUITY EXIT OF THE YEAR
• Akindo Sushiro (Unison Capital)
• IHH Healthcare (Abraaj Capital)
• Infastech (CVC Capital Partners/Standard Chartered Private Equity)
• iNova Pharmaceuticals (Archer Capital/Ironbridge Capital)
• King's Safetywear (Navis Capital Partners)
VENTURE CAPITAL DEAL OF THE YEAR
• Beijing Jiuxian E-commerce (Sequoia Capital/Shenzhen Oriental Fortune Capital/Rich Land Capital)
• Bigtree Entertainment (Accel Partners)
• Flipkart (Accel Partners/Tiger Global/Iconiq Capital/Naspers)
• SunSun Lighting (GSR Ventures/Oak Investment Partners)
• Xiaomi (IDG Capital Partners/Morningside Ventures/Qiming Ventures/Qualcomm Ventures/Beijing ShunWei Venture
Capital/DST Advisors/Temasek Holdings)
PRIVATE EQUITY DEAL OF THE YEAR
• HCP Holdings (TPG Capital)
• Hong Kong Broadband (CVC Capital Partners)
• Medco Power (Saratoga Capital)
• Skylark (Bain Capital)
• Tianhe Chemicals Group (Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia)
VENTURE CAPITAL PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• Sanjeev Aggarwal (Helion Venture Partners)
• Naren Gupta (Nexus Venture Partners)
• Hurst Lin (DCM)
• Richard Liu (Morningside Ventures)
• Hans Tung (Qiming Venture Partners)
PRIVATE EQUITY PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
• David Gross-Loh (Bain Capital)
• Roy Kuan (CVC Capital Partners)
• Weijian Shan (PAG)
• Homer Sun (Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia)
• X.D. Yang (The Carlyle Group)
FIRM OF THE YEAR
• Archer Capital
• Bain Capital
• Hony Capital
• KKR
• Navis Capital Partners
Winners in the above categories - plus the recipient of the AVCJ Special Achievement Award - will be announced at an invitation-only gala dinner in Hong Kong on November 13, preceding the AVCJ Forum, which runs from November 14 to November 16.
A roundup of the evening will appear in that week's issue of the Asian Venture Capital Journal (released on the morning of November 14) and there will be in-depth coverage of all the winners in the December 4 issue of the magazine.
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