Jean Eric Salata
Profile: Baring Asia's Jean Eric Salata
Jean Eric Salata has built Baring Private Equity Asia from a one-man-shop into a firm with $20 billion in assets, negotiating financial crises and changing economic realities. He has never been one to stand still
Fund focus: Baring sees stability in scale
Jean Eric Salata, CEO of Baring Private Equity Asia, argues that a $6.5 billion fund is not too large for Asia – he wishes he’d raised more – and explains why size increasingly represents a competitive advantage
AVCJ Awards 2015: Fundraising - Large Cap & PE Professional of the Year: Jean Eric Salata
Jean Eric Salata, CEO and founding partner of Baring Private Equity Asia, on why fund and deal sizes are getting bigger
Q&A: Baring PE Asia's Jean Eric Salata
Baring Private Equity Asia has closed its sixth fund at $3.98 billion. CEO Jean Eric Salata explains how the firm has sized up to raise its largest-ever vehicle, and where he expects to deploy the capital
VIDEO: PE's top names sound off on Asian talent
Asia has been a major recipient of capital in recent years given the growth potential of key markets, but the region's top professionals aver that finding an experienced fund manager to deploy these dollars remains a key issue.
VIDEO: PE's top names on the key challenges in Asia
In the lead-up to 24th-annual AVCJ Forum 2011, held in Hong Kong November 7-11, AVCJ TV asks private equity’s top fund managers about the major challenges facing the industry.
Baring makes Singaporean education acquisition
Baring Private Equity Partners Asia has acquired the tertiary education business of Singaporean education and training institution PSB Academy for an undisclosed amount.
The fundraising success story
Baring Private Equity Asia ended a global slump on fundraising when it closed its fifth fund on $2.46 billion, 60% more than its predecessor, in less than six months. AVCJ speaks with the Managing Partner on the renewed institutional interest in Asian...
Picking the winners
“Active management works,” was the resounding message of the keynote address given by Steven Barnes, MD of Bain Capital at the AVCJ Forum.
Asia Pacific private equity: out of the tunnel
PE leaders at AVCJ Forum draw lessons from the Crisis
Jean Eric Salata of Baring Private Equity
Founding Partner and CEO of Baring Private Equity Asia Jean Eric Salata says that the RMB fund market in China is “new, it’s nascent, it’s not proven and we haven’t even seen it yet” - but also that its emergence in China is “natural.” And...
Results, however volatile, in China
Learning from past mistakes is key to future success, say experts