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HarbourVest Partners, LLC is an independent global alternative investment firm and an SEC-registered investment advisor. HarbourVest provides investment programs for institutional investors to invest in venture capital, buyout, mezzanine debt, and distressed debt. HarbourVest invests in these sectors globally through primary partnerships, secondary purchases, and direct investments. HarbourVest and its subsidiaries have 235 employees, including 82 investment professionals deployed in Boston, London, and Hong Kong. In over 28 years of investing in private equity, the team has committed more than $20 billion to newly-formed funds, representing relationships with 200 private equity managers. The team has also completed $6.2 billion in secondary purchases and invested $3.8 billion directly in operating companies. The firm’s clients consist of 300 institutional investors, including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
KPMG is one of the leading providers of Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG member firms respond to clients' complex business challenges with a global approach to services that spans industry sectors and national boundaries.
The KPMG Private Equity Group brings together our leading transaction advisory, deal origination and M&A Tax professionals who work full time on deals for the private equity funds. They combine industry specific skills with a deep understanding of the requirements of private equity funds as they search out the value enhancing attributes of each deal. Our professionals work closely with the management of portfolio companies, embedding ‘best practices’ and helping build value prior to exit. Depending on the exit route, we also help prepare companies for IPO or manage the sales process.
KPMG Advisory professionals provide advice and assistance to enable companies, intermediaries and public sector bodies to mitigate risk, improve performance, and create value in relation to both transactions as well as their everyday activities.
KPMG's Tax services are designed to reflect the unique needs and objectives of each client, KPMG firms work with their clients to assist them in achieving effective tax compliance and managing tax risks, while helping to control costs.
The Group is an independent direct investment fund manager, based in Hong Kong, which specializes in providing hybrid debt/equity capital. The Group and its constituents invest in the strategic development – major expansions, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, privatizations and buyouts – of promising medium-sized companies operating throughout Asia. They partner with companies, private equity sponsors and their advisers by providing longer-term hybrid capital, which is structured with a combination of debt and equity components. Investments range from US$10 million up to US$100 million.
AMCG also serves as a fiduciary for global institutional investor clients interested in alternative asset investment in Asia with a more conservative risk/reward profile. The Group is a credit-oriented investment manager, which aims to generate superior risk-adjusted returns from a combination of current income and capital appreciation by protecting capital and participating in equity.
Coller Capital is the leading investor in private equity secondaries worldwide, with approximately $8 billion under management.
We acquire positions in venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds, together with portfolios of companies or stakes in companies, from institutions, corporates, government bodies and family offices. Our investment in any one transaction ranges from $1 million to more than $1 billion.
In 2007, Coller Capital closed the world's largest secondaries fund, Coller International Partners V, with capital commitments of $4.8 billion from 200 of the world's leading institutional investors. The firm's investments range in size from $1 million to more than $1 billion.
Coller Capital has a truly multinational investment team, and offices in London, New York and Singapore.
The Longreach Group is an investment firm established in October 2003 to focus on control-oriented investments in strategically driven private equity opportunities in Japan and North Asia by developing tailored solutions suited to the unique needs of each investment situation. Longreach has particular focus on the technology, industrial, financial services, business services and consumer related sectors.
Longreach currently has 14 investment professionals located in Tokyo and Hong Kong. The firm also enjoys the support of prominent and highly committed Advisors located in Tokyo, New York, London and San Francisco.
Pacific Alliance Group is one of the largest alternative investment managers in Asia. Pacific Alliance Group manages funds covering Private Equity; Hedge Fund and Distressed; and Real Estate. Pacific Alliance’s investors include leading institutions from Europe, US and Asia. Founded in 2002, the Group has over 140 staff across offices including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo.
Tata is India’s largest conglomerate with consolidated revenue of USD 70.8 billion in the financial year ending March 31, 2009, equivalent to 5.5% of India’s GDP. It is India’s most diversified with more than 98 operating companies spread across most sectors of the economy, many occupying leadership positions in their respective industries. Tata employs over 350,000 personnel and its 27 publicly listed companies have a combined market capitalisation of over USD 70 billion. Tata Capital is an independent company promoted by Tata in 2007, and it aspires to become a leading player in the Indian Financial Services domain with market leading presence in many sectors including third party Fund Management and Private Equity. The Tata Capital Growth Fund, managed by Tata Capital Private Equity, brings together an independent team with skills, experience and track-record and the knowledge, network, relationships and brand of Tata, to exploit private equity investment opportunities in India.
Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,700 leading firms, including many of the world’s leading private equity and venture capital firms. Completely web-based, Capital IQ uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data on public and private companies, investment firms, people, corporate relationships, and transactions with a broad range of easy-to-use tools for financial analyses, screening, targeting, and managing projects. Capital IQ can help private capital investors evaluate opportunities more efficiently, enhance deal flow, and add value to portfolio companies. For more information, please visit Capital IQ's web site at www.capitaliq.com.
IntraLinks®, the world’s leading provider of critical information exchange solutions, connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime, using a web browser.
IntraLinks has 750,000 active users representing 90,000 organizations worldwide and 3,500 industry-leading clients. Since IntraLinks’ inception, 55,000 transactions have been facilitated. IntraLinks does business with 800 of the fortune 1000. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world. For more information, please visit our website www.intralinks.com.
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International Newspaper and News Website
The Wall Street Journal Asia is the leader in global business news for Asia. Since 1976, it has provided indispensable news and analysis of regional and global business developments for an influential pan-Asian audience of corporate and government decision-makers. The Journal Asia has been voted Asia’s most “important business reading” in every ABRS study since the survey’s inception in 1985…
Supporting Organisations
Since its launch in November 2002 with 70 starting members (companies and individuals), JVCA has exerted to attain its initial purpose of strengthening the role of reciprocal collaboration and venture business cultivation in the VC industry...
Japan Private Equity Association (JPEA) is a non-profit organization to solely represent private equity industry.
The objectives of JPEA are to raise awareness and develop right perception about private equity through responsible investments, and to contribute to development of Japanese economy.
Since its establishment in 2005, JPEA, with 29 members, has shared experience among the members through study sessions, and collaborated with the government to realize investor friendly regulations.
Knowledge Partner
Based out of London, New York, and Hong Kong, IE Consulting is a strategy consulting team, focusing on the needs of General Partners and other practitioners in the global private equity and venture capital markets, as well as hedge fund managers and institutional asset managers.
