Asia’s Private Equity News Source avcj.com March 24 2015 Volume 28 Number 11 EDITOR’S VIEWPOINT Consumers are key to China used car deals Page 3 NEWS Bain, ChrysCapital, Creador, Elixir, Equinas, Hahn & Co, IFC, INCJ, Kedaara, Sailing, Sequoia, TPG, Valiant Page 4 FOCUS Will China lead the world in intelligent automobiles? Page 11 DEAL OF THE WEEK TA looks past Alipay and finds value in YeePay’s offline angle Page 12 China’s CDH targets The burden of time Equipment rental for third SE Asia deal Can secondary investors capitalize on certain Asian GPs’ day of reckoning? Page 7 Page 12 FUNDS PORTFOLIO Cross-border cures Tapping into tipple Vivo raises $750m for Sino-US healthcare Page 13 CHAMP PE’s Accolade Wines tunaround Page 14 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 The consumer Holden Mann (852) 3411 4964 Creative Director Dicky Tang Designers Catherine Chau, Edith Leung, counts Mansfield Hor, Tony Chow Senior Research Manager Helen Lee Research Associates Herbert Yum, Jason Chong, Kaho Mak ONLINE USED CAR TRADING PLATFORMS share has seen rebates liberally distributed Senior Marketing Manager in both India and China have received capital among dealerships in return for business. As a Sally Yip from private equity investors in the past week. result, margins are thin. Circulation Administrator The deals threw up a number of interesting Consumer-facing segments, on the other Prudence Lau industry statistics.