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World-class fundraising techniques for , debt, real estate and infrastructure funds And the • Acquire insight into how LPs are viewing the fundraising environment and how they are approaching portfolio construction winner is ... • Optimise your firm’s preparation with detailed timelines and plans As a reader of Private Equity International, you’ll be familiar • Take full advantage of ‘non-marketing’ situations for marketing with this next very special section, which details the firms, funds and deals that stood out from the crowd in 2015. • Familiarise yourself on how to work with placement agents for an optimal campaign and with gatekeepers to get your foot in the door Each year, our global edit team works through the views and opinions of colleagues and contacts in the market to build a list of nominees for what is the private equity • Nail that all important face-to-face presentation industry’s most comprehensive set of awards. The chal- lenge is to select the few who have caught the eye of …plus much more many. In addition to drawing up a shortlist of four nomi- nees per category, we include a fifth ‘write-in’ option for each category to let readers input their own preferences. Attracting thousands of votes from all over the world, the results provide evidence of the dynamic and diverse nature of private equity.

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Congratulations to all the winners and runners-up, and SPECIAL OFFER TO SUBSCRIBERS: very best of luck next year to everyone else. Order your copy today quoting SUBBK15 and receive a 15% discount THE PRIVATE EQUITY INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 2015: ROLL OF HONOUR

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LARGE-CAP FIRM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE LARGE-CAP FIRM OF THE YEAR LARGE-CAP FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA CVC Capital Partners IN NORTH AMERICA Baring Private Equity Asia The Blackstone Group MID-MARKET FIRM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE MID-MARKET FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA EQT MID-MARKET FIRM OF THE YEAR Navis Capital Partners IN NORTH AMERICA LIMITED PARTNER OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE Partners Group LIMITED PARTNER OF THE YEAR IN ASIA PGGM Government of Singapore Investment Council LIMITED PARTNER OF THE YEAR CO-INVESTOR OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE IN NORTH AMERICA CO-INVESTOR OF THE YEAR IN ASIA Ardian CDPQ Temasek EXIT OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE CO-INVESTOR OF THE YEAR EXIT OF THE YEAR IN ASIA King Digital Entertainment (Apax Partners) IN THE AMERICAS HKBN (CVC Capital Partners) DEAL OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE Canada Pension Plan Investment Board DEAL OF THE YEAR IN ASIA Douglas Holdings (CVC Capital Partners) NORTH AMERICAN DEAL OF THE YEAR GE Capital (KKR/Värde Partners/Deutsche Bank) SECONDARIES FIRM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE Heinz (3G Capital/Berkshire Hathaway) Ardian NORTH AMERICAN EXIT OF THE YEAR SECONDARIES FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA NewQuest Capital Partners SECONDARIES DEAL OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE Freescale Semiconductor (The Blackstone Palamon Capital Partners (Goldman Sachs Group/The Carlyle Group/Permira/TPG) SECONDARIES DEAL OF THE YEAR IN ASIA AIMS PE Group/Morgan Stanley AIP/ SECONDARIES FIRM OF THE YEAR Mizuho Financial Group (Lexington Partners) Rothschild Merchant Banking Group/ IN THE AMERICAS SECONDARIES ADVISOR OF THE YEAR Adams Street Partners/PGGM) Ardian IN ASIA SECONDARIES ADVISOR OF THE YEAR SECONDARIES DEAL OF THE YEAR Credit Suisse IN EUROPE IN THE AMERICAS FIRM OF THE YEAR IN AUSTRALASIA Lazard CalPERS real estate interests Pacific Equity Partners SPECIAL SITUATIONS/TURNAROUND FIRM (Strategic Partners) FIRM OF THE YEAR IN CHINA OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE SECONDARIES ADVISOR OF THE YEAR KKR Sun European Partners IN THE AMERICAS FIRM OF THE YEAR IN JAPAN DISTRESSED DEBT FIRM OF THE YEAR Credit Suisse J-STAR IN EUROPE SPECIAL SITUATIONS/TURNAROUND FIRM Oaktree Capital Management OF THE YEAR IN NORTH AMERICA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN KOREA MBK Partners FIRM OF THE YEAR IN AFRICA KKR Helios Investment Partners DISTRESSED DEBT FIRM OF THE YEAR FIRM OF THE YEAR IN INDIA Everstone Capital Partners FIRM OF THE YEAR IN BENELUX IN NORTH AMERICA Apollo Global Management Waterland Private Equity Investments FIRM OF THE YEAR IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA Aberdeen Asset Management FIRM OF THE YEAR IN CEE/RUSSIA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN CANADA Onex Mid Europa Partners FRONTIER MARKET FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN FRANCE FIRM OF THE YEAR IN LATIN AMERICA Dragon Capital PAI Partners Advent International MANAGER FIRM OF THE YEAR IN GERMANY FUND OF FUNDS MANAGER OF THE YEAR OF THE YEAR IN ASIA Terra Firma Capital Partners IN NORTH AMERICA Aberdeen Asset Management Aberdeen Asset Management FIRM OF THE YEAR IN IBERIA DISTRESSED/SPECIAL SITUATIONS FIRM Magnum Capital Industrial Partners PLACEMENT AGENT OF THE YEAR IN NORTH AMERICA OF THE YEAR IN ASIA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ITALY Mercury Capital Advisors SSG Capital Management Apax Partners LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN NORTH AMERICA PLACEMENT AGENT OF THE YEAR IN ASIA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN MENA (FUND FORMATION) Eaton Partners The Abraaj Group Kirkland & Ellis LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA FIRM OF THE YEAR IN THE NORDICS LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN NORTH AMERICA (FUND FORMATION) EQT (TRANSACTIONS) King & Wood Mallesons Debevoise & Plimpton FIRM OF THE YEAR IN SWITZERLAND LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN ASIA PAI Partners LENDER OF THE YEAR IN NORTH AMERICA (TRANSACTIONS) Ares Management Clifford Chance FIRM OF THE YEAR IN THE UK Inflexion Private Equity FUND OF FUNDS MANAGER OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE HarbourVest Partners PLACEMENT AGENT OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE Campbell Lutyens LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE (FUND FORMATION) King & Wood Mallesons LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE (TRANSACTIONS) King & Wood Mallesons LENDER OF THE YEAR IN EUROPE ICG

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LARGE-CAP FIRM MID-MARKET FIRM GIC’s sophistication as a long-term value OF THE YEAR IN ASIA OF THE YEAR IN ASIA investor means it is often mimicked by other sovereign wealth funds in adopting 1. Baring Private Equity Asia 1. Navis Capital Partners a more hands-on investment attitude. 2. CVC Capital Partners 2. MBK Partners With more than 100 active fund rela- 3. CITIC Capital Partners 3. Ascendent Capital Partners tionships and 9 percent of its $345 billion- plus total assets invested in private equity Last year saw Baring Private Equity The Malaysian flagship firm takes the spot and a third of its overall portfolio invested Asia close its sixth fund on its $3.98 billion for the third time despite consciously hold- in Asia-Pacific, as well as pursuing an active hard-cap – one of the largest funds raised ing back its pace of investment compared co-investment and direct strategy, GIC by an Asia-based firm – having attracted with previous years. remains one of the most energetic and commitments from the Navis Capital Partners began the year best-funded LPs in the region. likes of the Illinois with a bang, closing its seventh fund on its Investments last year include $85 million Teachers’ Retire- $1.5 billion target. The firm went on to take in cosmetics ingredients supplier Bloomage ment System, a majority stake in Dometic Medical Division BioTechnology Corporation, $4.5 billion for Texas County & as part of a management deal, acquire a majority stake in UK roadside recovery District Retire- Singapore’s Imperial Treasure Restaurant group RAC, about $185 million for a joint ment System and Group for around S$60 million-S$80 million venture with Canada Pension Plan Invest- New York State ($43 million-$57 million; €38 million-€50 ment Board to acquire D-Cube Retail Mall in Common Retire- million), and sell Singapore’s largest hazardous Seoul, South Korea, as well as a slew of other ment Fund. waste management company ECO Industrial property projects across India and China. Two headline-grabbing acquisitions Environmental Engineering to China’s Beijing GIC has increased its exposure to Asia from from the fund included the $1.1 billion Capital Group for S$246 million. 27 percent to 30 percent, and has raised its purchase of Vistra Group from IK Invest- Navis, led by co-managing partner Nich- exposure to North Asia, with the region now ment Partners and global fund adminis- olas Bloy (pictured), also appointed accounting for 15 percent of its holdings. tration and corporate services firm former Macquarie Asia private Orangefield Group. equity head Hugh Dyus in The firm, led by chief May. executive Jean Eric Salata Navis closed the year (pictured above), also sold its on a high, exiting its 14 percent stake in Lafarge investment in Thailand’s India back to Lafarge in a deal Golden Foods Siam, gen- valued at about $303 million. As erating a 3.3x money return of 2015, Baring Asia, whose funds and 24 percent IRR. hold more than $9 billion in committed capital across more than 70 companies LIMITED PARTNER globally, reported private equity returns OF THE YEAR IN ASIA exceeding Asian public market indices by 13 percent compounded per year. 1. Government of Singapore Last year the firm also received invest- Investment Corporation ment from US-based Affiliated Managers 2. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Group (AMG), which acquired a 15 per- 3. Government Pension Heavyweight: GIC is often imitated by other cent passive interest. Investment Fund sovereign wealth funds

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(now rebranded as Excelity Global) and FRONTIER MARKET Hindustan Unilever’s bread and bakery FIRM OF THE YEAR business Modern Bakery. IN ASIA The firm exited its eight-year invest- ment in Global Hospitals with its sale to 1. Dragon Capital Malaysia’s Parkway Hospitals, generating a 2. Mekong Capital 3x return on investment, and before the 3. VinaCapital year ended re-invested in New Delhi-based

Wikimedia publisher S Chand, paving the way for the Vietnam’s Dragon Capital has been company’s IPO plans. investing across Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Everstone also boosted its investment Thailand, the Philippines and Sri Lanka for team, hiring Walt Disney executive Roshini almost two decades. Its Mekong Brahmapu- Bakshi and Unilever’s Rajev Shukla as man- tra Clean Development Fund I, a 2010-vin- : Jeremy Thompson/ : Thompson/ Source Jeremy aging directors, and Citibank executive tage vehicle, is almost fully deployed, having Action plan: in November, a consortium including MBK Partners sold a 51 percent stake Bhavna Thakur as head of capital markets made new investments last year in solar in the Universal Studio Japan theme park and exits. photovoltaic, small hydro and solid waste management companies. ›› Network Systems to Morgan Stanley FIRM OF THE YEAR The firm, which has assets under man- Private Equity Asia and Far Eastone Tel- IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA agement of around $1.4 billion, plans to ecommunications for $2.3 billion, marking market a second clean development fund in a profitable exit for the firm. 1. Aberdeen Asset Management early 2016, targeting $100 million to invest 2. Navis Capital in sustainable development in low carbon FIRM OF THE YEAR 3. Creador business growth opportunities. IN INDIA In October, the Ho Chih Minh-based This is Aberdeen Asset Management’s firm, which also has offices in Hanoi, Bang- 1. Everstone Capital Partners first win as firm of the year in South-East kok, Hong Kong and the UK, teamed up 2. Accel Partners Asia. It was a year when Aberdeen flexed with Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam to 3. Tata Capital its muscles in the region, acquiring sponsor and launch the Vietnam Fintech FLAG Capital Management to Club, which aims to support the country's Backed by a stronger expand its alternatives platform. fintech sector. macroeconomic land- Combined with the acquisition scape, rising optimism of US hedge fund group Arden FUND OF FUNDS and improved exit Asset Management in August MANAGER OF THE YEAR environment in India, last year, the group has now IN ASIA Everstone Capital more than doubled total alterna- Partners mirrored the tive to $30 1. Aberdeen Asset Management country’s growth story in 2015 billion under global head of alternatives 2. LGT Capital Partners as it continued to see a landscape ripe with Andrew McCaffery. 3. Asia Alternatives opportunities. In October, Aberdeen held a final close A winner for the fifth consecutive year, of Flag Private Equity VI on $295 million, In a series of transformational acquisitions, Everstone, co-founded by Sameer Sain (pic- $70 million above its initial target. including of FLAG Squadron Asia completed tured), closed its third fund on its impres- Through its acquisition of FLAG, which this year and SVG’s Asia businesses, global sive $730 million hard-cap in September, bought Asia-focused fund of funds business fund of funds investor Aberdeen Asset the largest India-dedicated private equity Squadron Capital in 2012, the UK-based Management, led in Asia by Myron Zhu fund last year. firm has become a regional player with a (pictured), has consolidated its position as a On the transaction front, Everstone presence in 14 Asian markets, and 2016 standout player in the regional market. made two acquisitions, picking up the Asia looks set to be an exciting year in the region The build-up of its Asian fund of fund’s Pacific payroll business of AON Hewitt for the firm. business from its headquarters in Singapore

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