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Secondaries: GPs for hire
Duke Street's announcement in February that it had abandoned plans to raise a EUR850 million buyout fund came as little surprise. The UK-based private equity firm had targeted ... Although the economics will be inferior to those in the original fund - well below 2% and 20% for the fees and carried interest, respectively - the possibility of retaining part ...
Asia Incubators: From acorns to oaks
TradeGecko began as a calculated gamble. Three 20-something New Zealanders, Carl Thompson and brothers Cameron and Bradley Priest, moved to Singapore last year to develop a cloud ... place on the 2012 intake of Singapore-based accelerator JFDI.Asia, receiving an initial investment of $20,000 as well as assistance that led to the commercial launch of TradeGecko ...
On the shoulders of giants: DFIs and first-time funds
When Mongolia Opportunity Partners (MOP) set out to raise its maiden fund in 2010, the challenge was two-fold. Not only did investing in Mongolia - whose chief industries ... LP commitments, with $200 million deployed in Asia, and the target return is close to 20%. Second, a DFI often prefers GPs with strategies that fit its developmental targets ...
Accelerator fundraising: Backing the batch
... capital for a stake of 5-10%. The winning applications, of which there will be around 20, will normally have some kind of finished product and be between six months and one year ... Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst and Maverick Capital - would then contribute another $80,000, structured as a convertible note, through a vehicle called ...
Lower middle market fundraising: Early adopters
In 2010, Yorkway Capital Partners didn't have a fund, a portfolio, or a history in the private equity market. But the firm did have a plan to tackle a group of investors that had so...
Corporate governance: Thin end of the wedge?
All but four of the people sitting on Walmart's 16-strong board of directors are independent. Those appointed by the US-listed supermarket retailer to safeguard the interests ... degree of autonomy. AVCJ has records of approximately 220 buyouts in Japan since 2010 and 20% of them could be described as carve-outs from larger companies. Of the transactions ...
China robotics: Rise of the machines
"Pepper, let's have some tea!" an interviewer suggests. His companion - the humanoid robot Pepper, designed by Japanese firm Aldebaran Robotics - swivels its head to look ... picking up pace recently. AVCJ Research shows that of the $149 million deployed across 20 total deals in the segment since 2010, $107 million has gone into five transactions ...
China’s corporates embrace VC
For the past 15 years, corporate venturing in China has been the exclusive preserve of foreign investors. The fundraising numbers said as much. Activity may have trebled from $611 million...
Asia fundraising: In Volcker's shadow
"There is definitely an extinction event underway" confides one Asian GP. Not long ago this manager had to completely reconstruct his LP base after the US financial institutions ... number of institutions, there have been some significant changes over the past four years. In 2008, 20% of LPs were banks; by 2012 the share had fallen to 15%. Government agencies ...
Leveraged lenders seek common ground
With some banks pulling back from the leveraged finance market in Australia and those that remain increasingly wary about whom they lend to, it is generally agreed that mezzanine ... Market participants say that senior debt generates a return of about 10% and equity delivers 20%. There is room for an intermediate level of capital in between but a common ...
Driving Asia’s growth
China GDP growth, inflation, asset bubbles and public markets trends have made China both a hotbed of growth and a country with some disconcerting economic indicators. Inflation ... state will also enforce a credit cap that limits growth in 2011 to less than 20%. The movements follow a period of impressive expansion for the country, which experienced ...
China MBOs: The problem with privatizations
Harbin Electric's stock closed at $23 on October 21, its highest level in a year. Yet the price was still short of the $24 that Tianfu Yang, the company's chairman and CEO ... merit review. They must meet various requirements including a reported profit of at least HK$20 million in each of the two preceding years. Chinese online video sites Youku ...
Funds of funds build LP returns
A highly attractive, yet geographically immense and very fragmented region with even less market and cultural continuity than the European Union – as well as many smaller GPs –...
Portfolio: Armstrong Asset Management and The Blue Circle
For Andrew Affleck, founder and managing partner of Armstrong Asset Management, the firm's relationship with its portfolio company The Blue Circle is defined ... IPP) in the wind space, with 125 megawatts in directly owned and operated projects, 20 MW under management for third parties, and another 1000 MW under development in France ...
ASEAN integration: Gathering momentum
For Rodney Muse, co-managing partner of Navis Capital Partners, the recently established ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) represents the opening of a door that the firm ... almost nonexistent in the early years of the century, had risen to more than $20 billion by 2013, and Thailand received about $10 billion the same year. While cross-border ...
China media: Lights, camera, regulation
The fantasy movie "Warcraft" has proved an unmitigated failure in the US, with takings of $47.1 million in the seven weeks following its June release against a budget of $160 ... permitted each year, including in IMAX or 3D format, up from the previous cap of 20 on standard formats. Foreign studios are entitled to a maximum of 25% of the Chinese box office ...
Portfolio: L Capital Asia and Seafolly
When L Capital Asia approached Australian swimwear manufacturer Seafolly about a partnership in 2013, the company was already disenchanted with private equity. CEO Anthony Halas ... study in 2015 by Technavio projected revenues for the global swimwear market would rise to $20 billion by 2019, from $15 billion in 2014. The market was also highly fragmented ...
Portfolio: The Riverside Company and Simcro
When The Riverside Company first approached New Zealand-based Simcro about the possibility of a takeover, it found the company's ambition to be more than a match ... belief in Simcro's strong growth potential; with the company posting EBITDA of less than NZ$20 million at the time of Riverside's investment, the GP felt there was a lot of room ...
Asia PE-backed IPOs: Fits and starts
With proceeds expected to reach up to A$1.12 billion (A$843 billion), the forthcoming IPO of Ingham's Enterprises will be the biggest PE-backed offering in Australia ... Asian PE investors. One clear reason is the returns generated, which according to AVCJ Research total $20 billion since 2003 for Australia, $18 billion for India, and $371 billion ...
US pension funds & PE: Public service remit
Private equity accounts for $4.69 billion of the $92.2 billion held by North Carolina’s state pension fund. New commitments are unlikely to be forthcoming in the near term ... adding new managers. They want to make more concentrated bets with fewer managers, and if the 20 best names for the various strategies they are executing on are delivering returns ...