05
Mar
Asia ex-Australia: Right time, right place?
Developed Asia plus India has become the preferred regional mix in recent years as investors look for opportunities beyond China. Japan has been the biggest beneficiary on a single-country basis – underlined by a string of oversubscribed funds – although many LPs are gravitating to the diversification-at-scale proposal of pan-regional options. Regardless of geography, managers must demonstrate an ability to exploit different liquidity channels, adapt investment strategies amid volatile macro conditions, and engage in meaningful value creation.
- Which geographies and sectors offer the best risk-return balance?
- How are GPs developing cross-border expansion capabilities?
- Is China a value play or an excessively risky play?
- Are Asian GPs taking a more institutionalised approach to exits?
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SpeakersJustin Niessner Associate Editor, AVCJ Mergermarket
Saurabh Chatterjee Managing Director ChrysCapital
Shane Chesson Founding Partner Openspace Capital
Shaun Khubchandani Partner and Co-Head of Emerging Markets Siguler Guff
Mark Chiba Group Chairman & Partner The Longreach Group
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Saurabh Chatterjee is a Managing Director at ChrysCapital where he manages the Fundraising and LP Relations functions, and is also a voting member of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to joining ChrysCapital in 2016, he was with Providence Equity Partners’ investment team in their New Delhi Office. Before Providence, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group and CIVC Partners, a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm. Saurabh received an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and a BA in Economics from Carleton College.
Shane Chesson is a Founding Partner of Openspace Capital, a multi-strategy asset manager with a long-established specialist focus on Southeast Asia. Since 2014, the platform has expanded from Early Stage to Growth Stage, Web3 (Ocular), Credit (Onyx) and Listed Equities (Orbit) investment strategies.
Shane has overseen investments into more than 80 Openspace companies since 2014 and has served on the Board or as an Observer for companies including Gojek (Exit GOTO:JK), HaloDoc, Whispir (Exit WSP:AU), Finnomena, Kredivo, Topica, CXA (Exited), Tradegecko (Exit to INTU:US), Amp, Abacus, CoPilot, Validus, Pluang, Envisso, Neuroglee and BeautyMNL (Exited).
Shane is also Vice-Chairman of SVCA (Singapore Venture & Private Capital Association) which represents the community and interests of over 300 members focused on private markets.
He was previously Managing Director and Co-Head (Technology Investment Banking, of Citigroup Asia-Pacific.
Shane has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD Singapore where he was a recipient of the IAA Asian Campus scholarship and has an LLB/BCom from University of Western Australia.
Shaun Khubchandani is a Partner and the Co-Head of Emerging Markets at Siguler Guff. In this role, he is responsible for spearheading all aspects of the direct investment process as well as managing risk across the Firm’s direct investment portfolios across emerging markets. Mr. Khubchandani serves as a member of the Investment Committees for Siguler Guff’s emerging markets-focused funds.
Mr. Khubchandani currently serves as a Board Member to Verse Innovation (Dailyhunt), Relisys Medical Devices and Luker Electric Technologies. Prior to joining Siguler Guff in 2018, Mr. Khubchandani was a Director at a lower-middle market private equity buyout firm. Mr. Khubchandani was responsible for leading a roll-up of physical therapy clinics across North America under the corporate brand, Alliance Physical Therapy Partners.
Prior to graduate school, Mr. Khubchandani was a member of the emerging markets investment team at Siguler Guff. During graduate school, Mr. Khubchandani worked at Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, the corporate venture capital arm of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mr. Khubchandani began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Citigroup Inc. Notably, Mr. Khubchandani was a member of Citi’s deal team during the initial public offering of Siguler Guff’s portfolio company, EPAM Systems, Inc. (NYSE: EPAM).
Mr. Khubchandani holds a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance at Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Mark Chiba is Group Chairman and Partner of The Longreach Group. The Longreach Group is an established independent private equity firm with offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo. The Firm focuses on Japan related control buyouts in the mature industrial and technology, consumer related and business services sectors. The Firm manages four Funds which have accumulated approximately US$2.7 billion of committed limited partner and co-investment capital.
Mark co-founded The Longreach Group in late 2003. Mark's lead responsibilities at Longreach include firm management, senior relationship driven investment sourcing and execution, and building the firm's global capital base and networks.
Before co-founding Longreach, Mark served as Chief Executive Officer of UBS Securities Japan, Member of the Global Investment Banking Management Committee and Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Management Committee, Head of Japan Investment Banking and as a member of the UBS Global Investment Bank Board. Previous to these roles, Mark headed the UBS Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions Group.
Mark is an Australian citizen, resident in Hong Kong. He holds First Class Honours Bachelors degrees in Economics (University of Melbourne) and Law (University of Sydney). Mark is a Rhodes Scholar with a Masters degree in International Relations (with Distinction) from Oxford University.