Asia’s Private Equity News Source avcj.com June 16 2015 Volume 28 Number 22 EDITOR’S VIEWPOINT Investors wait for nore big-ticket deal flow Page 3 NEWS Apax, Archer, CITIC Goldstone, Future Fund, Hony, KKR, MLC, Quadria, Sequoia, Shoreline, TPG Page 5 FOCUS Why local banks are still a force in deal-sourcing Page 14 INDUSTRY Q&A Masamichi Yoshizawa of The Longreach Group Page 15 CONTRIBUTED ARTICLE Purchasing power? Bain & Co’s Jim Verbeeten on creating value PE investors find new ways to unlock value in Japan’s consumer sector Page 9 Page 19 ANALYSIS FOCUS A boardroom battle Monetizing science Japan’s corporate governence challenge Page 12 Venture capital taps university start-ups Page 16 PRE-CONFERENCE ISSUE AVCJ PRIVATE EQUITY AND VENTURE CAPITAL FORUM JAPAN 2015 Anything is possible if you work with the right partner Unlocking liquidity for private equity investors www.collercapital.com London, New York, Hong Kong EDITOR’S VIEWPOINT
[email protected] Managing Editor Tim Burroughs (852) 3411 4909 Staff Writers Andrew Woodman (852) 3411 4852 Winnie Liu (852) 3411 4907 Large check limbo Holden Mann (852) 3411 4964 Creative Director Dicky Tang Designers IT IS NOT A PHENOMENON UNIQUE TO more in 2014 – and 11, 14 and 11 in the three Catherine Chau, Edith Leung, Mansfield Hor, Tony Chow Japan. Pick a major Asian market with public years before that – the mid-market space is not markets trading at or close to an all-time high discouraging. While valuations are a concern, Senior Research Manager and you find a cumulative private equity industry participants say they can rely on a steady Helen Lee investment figure that is lagging the previous stream of opportunities involving companies Research Associates Herbert Yum, Jason Chong, year’s pace.