LGT Capital Partners
Secondaries: The direct approach
Working for a fund held captive or semi-captive within an investment bank is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it promises access to deal flow and resources that independent funds can only wish for. On the other, it is hard to raise money from third...
China funds: Cult of personality
Wang Gongquan's apparent departure from China’s private equity industry was nothing if not dramatic. An early-stage investment pioneer with IDG Venture Partners, Wang went on to found CDH Venture Capital, notably guiding Qihoo 360 to the US markets in...
India exits: M&A trumps IPO
A new study reveals sharp disparities in preferred private equity exit routes in China and India
IPO exits twice as popular in China as in India – study
Private equity investments in China are twice as likely to result in an IPO exit as investments in India, where M&A remains the preferred route, according to new research published by LGT Capital Partners and INSEAD’s global private equity initiative....
Asia Pacific's happy returns
Asia’s exit market has picked up steam in 2011, but questions remain as to whether timing is optimal
Co-investments: Are GPs and LPs on the same page?
Private equity funds investing together with their limited partners have been on the rise recently with no signs of slowing down but what are the economics and the implications for the relationship?
NewQuest, backed by PE consortium, acquires BoaML Asia's non-real estate assets
A newly launched fund managed by NewQuest Capital Partners, backed by a consortium consisting of Paul Capital, HarbourVest Partners, LGT Capital Partners and Axiom Asia, has acquired “substantially all” of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s (BoaML) non-real...
Funds of funds build LP returns
Asia Pacific has always possessed the kind of environment that in theory is well tailored for the fund of funds model.
The dynamics of secondaries
The coverage of the state of the Asia Pacific secondaries market earlier this month in AVCJ naturally leads one to consideration of how secondaries work, and what they can do for investors in the region – whether for local buyers or sellers, or outsiders...
Secondaries show Asia's maturity?
Secondary fund transaction volumes are one indicator of the scale and maturity of a region’s private equity industry.
Zhou joins LGT in Hong Kong
LGT Capital Partners has recruited Brooke Zhou as an Associate Vice President in its private equity investment team, based in Hong Kong, where she will focus on primary and secondary fund investments, as well as co-investments.
2010: A roaring Year of the Tiger?
2010 may deliver the hoped-for recovery, but no one is taking it for granted.