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Profile: Longreach Group's Mark Chiba
A student activist turned career investment banker, Mark Chiba set up Longreach Group as a Japan-focused buyout firm with old-fashioned values.
Corporate Japan urged to look overseas – AVCJ Japan Forum
The need for Japanese companies to expand overseas into fast-growing Asian markets emerged as a key theme on the opening day of the AVCJ Japan Forum, which takes place today and tomorrow in Tokyo.
Sanyo Electric exits homes division to Ant Capital
Japanese electronics major Sanyo Electric is set to exit its stake in the homebuilding division Sanyo Homes to Tokyo-based Ant Capital Partners, in a deal worth JPY500 million ($6 million).
Longreach makes long-awaited first close
Hong Kong-based general partner The Longreach Group has completed the $125 million first close of its Japan-focused Longreach Capital Partners 2, L.P., coming as Japan’s business environment undergoes a transitional period.
A view from the top
The upcoming 2011 AVCJ Private Equity and Venture Capital Review highlights the growing importance of Asia-Pacific to the global PE community. It also raises the question: Just where is all this money going?
Longreach makes first close on Japan-focused fund
The Longreach Group has completed the first close of its Japan-focused, Longreach Capital Partners 2, L.P., with initial commitments of $125 million made from the PE firm’s existing investors from its first fund as well as US foundations and endowments.
TPG wins Firm of the Year, Bonderman receives Lifetime Achievement honor at 2010 AVCJ Awards
At the 10th AVCJ Asian Private Equity & Venture Capital Awards, presented this evening in an exclusive invitation-only ceremony in Hong Kong, a strong lineup was honored in a total of nine categories, with TPG Capital walking away with three Awards.
Mark Chiba of The Longreach Group
Group Chairman and Partner of The Longreach Group Mark Chiba says that, despite past market performance that have prompted “disappointments,” Japan still holds a great number of opportunities for LPs, to the point that Chiba labels the market as “an...
Longeach succeeds in bid for 99.53% of Sanyo Logistics
Pan-Asian private equity firm The Longreach Group announced the successful completion of its tender offer to acquire the issued and outstanding common shares of Sanyo Electric Logistics Co., Ltd., the logistics subsidiary owned by Sanyo Electric Co.,...
Financial investors in financial services
PE’s past and future in the sector in Asia
Japan, a Catch-22?
While Japan's estimated GDP growth sits at just 2.6%, China is forecasted to hit 9.6% growth in 2010.
Longreach's Miyoshi leaves for Greenhill
Yasuyuki “Yaz” Miyoshi, hitherto Representative Director and one of the founding partners of pan-Asian private equity firm The Longreach Group, has started a new role in Japan as Managing Director at Greenhill & Co., Inc. a global independent investment...
Longreach bids for Sanyo Electric Logistics
First Japan investment in four years for buyout fund
Longreach targets Sanyo Logistics via tender offer
The Longreach Group, the Hong Kong-headquartered regional private equity firm, will launch a tender offer for Sanyo Electric Logistics, the JASDAQ-listed provider of logistics solutions, for a probable total transaction value of JPY17.9 billion ($200...
Longreach Group may win Sanyo logistics company
Hong Kong-headquartered private equity firm The Longreach Group has emerged as the potential lead bidder for Sanyo Electric Logistics Co.,Ltd, a Japanese logistics company owned by Sanyo Electric, the electronics manufacturer acquired by Panasonic in...
Private equity insights from Japan
GPs, LPs state their views