Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is an award-winning journalist and Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for Private Equity International and editing its daily Side Letter briefing. He joined the business in 2017, having previously covered EMEA markets from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
The sovereign wealth fund is seeing 'a higher percentage of control buyouts at scale' in China and India, according to Asia PE head Ankur Meattle.
The fund has increased its secondaries budget to capture opportunities arising from market uncertainty, private equity head Yasuyuki Tomita tells PEI.
Quarterly redemption opportunities do not mean these products should be considered liquid, says head of international Marco Bizzozero.
Reinvigorating capital markets with a lower reporting burden for listed companies could in turn help unblock private equity’s clogged exit pipeline.
Trustar Capital Partners V will close just shy of its $1.3bn target, PEI understands.
Assessing impact at exit can be more challenging for investments earlier in the life cycle of a business, says director Eliza Foo.
Lili Wang is evaluating new product strategies across private credit, private equity secondaries and real estate, she tells PEI.
The firm joins an increasingly crowded NAV financing market, with Partners Group and Pemberton Asset Management among those to have also entered the fray in recent years.
An uptick in deferred interest payments and covenant breaches could signal underlying health problems among private equity portfolios.
The firm's last regional flagship – the 2021-vintage KKR Asian Fund IV – is the largest pan-Asian buyout fund to date.