15
Nov
Asia secondaries: Continuations and conundrums
- Have valuations settled to the point where transactions are progressing?
- Which markets are most active in terms of fund restructurings?
- How can investors get comfortable with growth-stage technology exposure?
- What level of appetite is there for single asset continuation funds?
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SpeakersEugene Chan Director TR CAPITAL
Brooke Zhou Partner LGT CAPITAL PARTNERS
Charles Wan Head of Asia REDE PARTNERS
Jolie Chow Managing Director PJT PARTNERS
Eric Marchand Managing Partner COLLYER CAPITAL
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Eugene Chan is a Director at TR Capital. Prior to joining TR Capital, he was Legal Counsel at Kerry Holdings and Head of Legal at Kenetic Capital. Before that, he was a corporate lawyer with Linklaters in London and Hong Kong, where he worked on international M&A, joint venture and ECM transactions. Mr. Chan holds an LL.B. from the London School of Economics. He is also a CFA Charterholder.
TR Capital is a leading secondary private equity investor in the Asia Pacific region. TR Capital provides liquidity solutions to owners of private equity assets through single asset and portfolio transactions. The firm makes significant investments in innovative leaders in the Technology, Next-Generation Consumer and Healthcare sectors across Asia. TR Capital is an active investor. Since its inception in 2007, TR Capital has closed four flagship funds, managed total capital commitments of US$1.2 billion and completed 39 secondary investments. TR Capital’s sophisticated investor base includes sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, asset management firms, entrepreneurs, and family offices. The firm’s 30 professionals are based in offices across Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Mumbai and Singapore. The firm is management owned and independent.
Brooke Zhou is Partner of LGT Capital Partners, and leads LGT CP’s secondary investment activities in Asia, as well as the firm’s overall China business. LGT Capital Partners is a leading institutional alternative asset and fund of funds manager, currently managing over USD 90 billion AuM on a global basis and over 600 private equity professionals worldwide. The firm is headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland (near Zurich) and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, New York, Raleigh, Dublin, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vaduz and Dubai.
Prior to joining LGT Capital Partners in 2010, Ms. Zhou was with CDH Investments, a leading Chinese private equity manager, based in Beijing. Prior to CDH Investments, Ms. Zhou spent her career at Bain & Company in Shanghai, as well as Oracle Corporation in Redwood Shores, California.
Ms. Zhou earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ms. Zhou grew up in Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Charles leads the Asia business for Rede encompassing Asian investor coverage and secondaries advisory. He brings over 18 years’ experience in financial services with the majority of his career in Asian private equity.
Prior to joining Rede in 2022, Charles was a Partner at Atlantic-Pacific Capital, a global placement advisor, between 2013 to 2021 where he co-led Asian advisory and investor coverage for the firm. He was previously an investment professional at Pomona Capital, a global secondaries and private equity fund of funds manager, where he spent five years investing in managers across Asia-Pacific.
Charles commenced his career at Merrill Lynch as an Equity Research Analyst covering the Greater China consumer sector and Asian small-mid-cap equities. Prior to that at KPMG as an audit accountant. He holds a BA in Finance and International Management from Boston University.
Rede Partners is an independent private equity fundraising advisory firm focused on primary fundraising, secondaries, strategic advisory projects and investor relations advisory. The firm has offices in London, Hong Kong and New York with a global team of over 110 professionals.
Rede Partners was established by Founding Partners Scott Church and Adam Turtle in 2011. The business was founded with a clear vision - to build the leading advisory practice helping outstanding General Partners address the opportunities and challenges of today's capital raising environment. Since inception in 2011, Rede Partners has raised €100+ billion across 61 primary fundraisings and 31 secondaries transactions.
Jolie Chow is a Managing Director at PJT Partners and Asia head of PJT Park Hill’s Secondary Advisory Group, based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining PJT Partners, Ms. Chow spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, where she leads Greater China financial sponsors coverage for the Investment Banking Division. She is experienced across secondary advisory, M&A, equity and debt financing in Asia Pacific.
Ms. Chow received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA with distinction from Yale University in Economics and International Studies.
