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EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization with EUR 246 billion in total assets under management (EUR 134 billion in fee-generating assets under management), divided into two business segments: Private Capital and Real Assets. EQT owns portfolio companies and assets in Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas and supports them in achieving sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership.
General Atlantic is a leading global growth investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 520 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980, General Atlantic continues to be a dedicated partner to visionary founders and investors seeking to build dynamic businesses and create long-term value. Guided by the conviction that entrepreneurs can be incredible agents of transformational change, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with and scale innovative businesses around the world. The firm leverages its patient capital, operational expertise, and global platform to support a diversified investment platform spanning Growth Equity, Credit, Climate, and Sustainable Infrastructure strategies. General Atlantic manages approximately $100 billion in assets under management, inclusive of all strategies, as of October 1, 2024, with more than 900 professionals in 20 countries across five regions.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, overseeing more than $2.8 trillion in assets under supervision as of December 31, 2023.
The business is driven by a focus on partnership and shared success with its clients, seeking to deliver long-term investment performance drawing on its global network and deep expertise across industries and markets.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is one of the largest managers of private capital globally and invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure and sustainability.
HarbourVest is an independent, global private markets firm with 40 years of experience and more than $125 billion assets under management as of December 31, 2023. Our interwoven platform provides clients access to global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets and infrastructure, and private credit.
Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko Ltd. (NSSK) is an investment firm established in 2014 and a leader in Japan’ s middle market for buyout transactions.
NSSK believes that implementing an Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) policy is socially responsible and can also improve the returns in our investment portfolio. Since the establishment of NSSK, we have embedded the ESG principles in our investment process.
In addition to its flagship funds, NSSK currently manages a total of five investment funds dedicated to impact investing in regional markets in Japan. Major ESG highlights for our portfolio companies include a 12% increase in the number of jobs, 40% of CEO/COOs being Women or Minorities, 78% of our total employee base of over 5,000 being Women, and 49% of managerial positions being held by Women. NSSK is a UN PRI Signatory and the first Japan based GP to become a signatory of the Operating Principles for Impact Management. Please visit www.nsskjapan.com to read about the successful and exciting ESG outcomes and initiatives driven by NSSK’s employees as highlighted in our ESG Annual Report.
KPMG is a leading provider of Audit, Tax and Advisory services to private equity worldwide.
Our Private Equity group brings together our top transaction advisory, deal origination, technology, value creation, and tax professionals to support our clients with global best practices and local expertise in every situation. We combine industry specialization with a deep understanding of the requirements of private equity as we help our clients grow portfolio value and achieve outstanding returns over the entire investment cycle.
We help our clients execute deals with greater insight, confidence, speed, and decision-making quality. Post investment, we help private equity funds and their portfolio companies identify and grow value in a diverse range of areas such as aligning IT strategy with the business model, turning ESG into a competitive advantage, optimizing operations to unlock cash and grow earnings, digitally empowering the business with new technologies, and many others. Depending on the exit route, we also help prepare companies for IPO or manage the sale process. In addition, we help private equity and their portfolios achieve effective tax compliance and manage tax risks while controlling costs and enhancing returns.
KPMG – Dedicated to Private Equity. Dedicated to your success.
10 Bridge Capital (formerly Hatton Equity Partners), established in 2016, is a Thailand-based investment firm founded by a team of seasoned professionals with extensive local networks and expertise across various industries. The firm focuses on investments in specialty manufacturing, consumer and retail, SaaS and business services, F&B and hospitality, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and education sectors. With a geographical preference for Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, 10 Bridge Capital manages assets up to USD 280 million.
The firm sources over 96% of its deals through proprietary relationships developed from its deep local network and strategic partnerships. This approach enables 10 Bridge Capital to access unique investment opportunities and support the growth of businesses in the region.
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Adams Street’s 90+ investment professionals focus on five strategies: primary fund partnerships, secondary transactions, co-investments, direct growth equity company investments, and private credit deals. Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles by drawing on 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships. The firm is 100% employee-owned and has $51 billion in assets under management. Adams Street maintains a worldwide presence with offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo.
Advantage Partners was founded by Richard Folsom and Taisuke Sasanuma in 1997 and is a leading provider of services to private equity and similar funds focused on the Japanese and Asian markets. Advantage Partners has been providing services to funds since 1997, when the firm established the first buyout fund in Japan. Funds served by Advantage Partners have invested in more than 120 companies representing total invested capital of over JPY400 billion across a wide range of industries and sectors. Advantage Partners has offices in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, and has plans to open an office in Mumbai later this year.
We're a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.
Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes.
Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment.
We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies.
Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
Bain Capital, LP is one of the world’s leading private investment firms with approximately $185 billion of assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses, and the communities in which we live. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve applied our insight and experience to organically expand into several asset classes including private equity, credit, public equity, venture capital and real estate. We leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus. With offices on four continents, our global team aligns our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.
Beyond Next Ventures stands at the forefront of venture capital in Japan, specializing in seed and early-stage investments in the deep-tech sector. Our focus is on startups that are making a global impact, particularly in healthcare, drug discovery and biotech, agritech and foodtech, digital, space, and climate tech. We partner with entrepreneurs at or before the seed stage, guiding them to successful IPOs and M&As. Our proven expertise and extensive network have positioned us as one of Japan's top-performing venture capital firms. In July 2024, we raised 25.7 billion yen (US$173m) for our 3rd flagship fund, which was oversubscribed. As of March 2025, our AUM is over 48 billion yen (US$324m). We believe in the power of deep-tech scientific innovations to enrich the world, supporting researchers with business planning, building strong management teams, shared lab space, and financing. By fostering a collaborative ecosystem, we drive the creation of new business models and ensure that future generations benefit from continuous advancements in science and technology.
BlackRock's private markets platform serves investors seeking outperformance in infrastructure, private debt, private equity, real estate, and multi-alternatives solutions. We strive to bring our investors the highest quality opportunities by drawing upon our global footprint, superior execution capabilities, proprietary technology, and position as a preferred partner.
Founded in 1999, ChrysCapital is one of the largest and most established India-focused private equity firms. By any measure, ChrysCapital’s track record is one the strongest in the context of Indian private equity – $4 billion raised across 8 funds, 86 investments, and 67 full exits. The firm has fully realized five successive funds on schedule with strong US$ net returns, which is unprecedented not just in India, but potentially also emerging markets in general. Overall, ChrysCapital has invested $3.0 billion and realized $5.3 billion, which equates to a disproportionately high share of total PE realizations from India. The firm has achieved all this while maintaining one of the lowest loss ratios and fee drags in the industry (~15% fee-to-invested capital vs 20-25% for the industry).
CIBC Caribbean is a member of the CIBC Group. CIBC is a leading Canadian-based global financial institution with 11 million personal banking and business clients. Through its three major business units - Retail and Business Banking, Wealth Management and Capital Markets - CIBC offers a full range of products and services through its comprehensive electronic banking network, branches and offices across Canada with offices in the United States and around the world.
CIBC Caribbean is a relationship bank offering a full range of market leading financial services through our Corporate Banking, Personal and Business Banking and Private Wealth segments (incorporating Fund & Trust Services). We are located in ten countries around the Caribbean, providing banking services through approximately 2,700 employees in 45 branches and offices, with US$13 billion in assets and market capitalization of US$1 billion.
CIBC Caribbean’s knowledge of banking has been gained through a combined experience of almost 250 years in the Caribbean through our heritage organisations, Barclays PLC and CIBC.
We also have a representative office in Hong Kong that provides Fund Administration and Trust Services. The award-winning team in Asia comprises industry veterans with specialist industry knowledge to provide comprehensive support to Alternative Investment Funds via a range of tailored services.
CVC Capital
CVC is a leading private equity and investment advisory firm with a network of 25 offices throughout Europe, Asia and the US, with approximately €137 billion of assets under management. CVC has six complementary strategies across private equity, secondaries and credit, for which we have secured commitments in excess of €165 billion from some of the world's leading institutional investors across its private equity and credit strategies. Funds managed or advised by CVC are invested in over 100 companies worldwide, which have combined annual sales of approximately €100 billion and employ more than 550,000 people. For further information about CVC please visit: www.cvc.com.
CVC Asia
CVC has one of the largest and longest-established pan-regional office networks of any private equity business in Asia and has been active in the region since 1999. CVC's Asia private equity strategy is focused on control, co-control and structured minority investments in high quality businesses in core consumer and services sectors across Asia. Typical enterprise values are between $250 million and $1.5 billion. For further information about CVC’s Asia Pacific funds please visit: www.cvc.com/private-equity/asia.
Globis Capital Partners is one of Japan's leading independent venture capital firm that primarily invests in Japanese startups from early stage to pre-IPO stage. Globis has managed seven funds totaling over JPY 180 billion, including latest Globis VII (final closed in March 2023 at JPY 72.7billion). All closed funds were ranked in the top quartile in global VC benchmarks in their respective vintage years, and it has multiple unicorn and unicorn potential startups in its current portfolio. About 90% of LPs are institutional investors both from and outside of Japan.
Globis almost always leads rounds and provides hands-on management support to its portfolio companies through board participation by its capitalists as well as tactical support by its value-add team GCP X. In addition, in April 2023 Globis opened a new office in San Francisco to strengthen support for the global expansion of its portfolio companies.
With its unique combination of western style investment expertise obtained through a joint venture with Apax Partners and Japan-local business expertise through Globis Group, which runs No.1 MBA program in Japan, Globis continues to lead the VC market in Japan.
JAFCO Group is a leading investment management company operating venture capital and buyout funds. Since its foundation in 1973, JAFCO Group has established the first venture capital fund in Japan in 1982 and pioneered Japanese buyout funds in 1998. We have 100+ professionals of venture capital, buyout investment, business development, and fund management in Japan, Asia, and the United States.
In venture investment, we pursue the creation of new businesses together with entrepreneurs. In buyout investment, we guide companies looking for renewed growth through a “second start,” enabling them to achieve enduring growth and expansion.
The total capital commitments of its investment funds to date in Japan and overseas have exceeded 1 trillion yen and the number of portfolio IPOs to date has reached over 1,000.
Our purpose is “Fueling perpetual growth; investing in bold visions.” We continue to invest in bold visions of companies and entrepreneurs, based on its conviction that continued investment leads to the realization of a sustainable society.
L Catterton is a market-leading consumer-focused investment firm, managing approximately $33 billion of equity capital across three multi-product platforms: private equity, credit, and real estate. Leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad network of strategic relationships, L Catterton's team of more than 200 investment and operating professionals across 17 offices partners with management teams to drive differentiated value creation across its portfolio. Founded in 1989, the firm has made over 250 investments in some of the world's most iconic consumer brands.
Lexington Partners is a leading global alternative investment manager primarily involved in providing liquidity solutions to owners of private equity and other alternative investments and in making co-investments alongside leading private equity sponsors. Lexington Partners is one of the largest managers of secondary acquisition and co-investment funds with $55 billion in committed capital since inception. Lexington has acquired over 3,900 secondary and co-investment interests through more than 1,000 transactions with a total value in excess of $69 billion, including $17 billion of syndications. Lexington also invests in private investment funds during their initial formation and has committed to more than 550 new funds in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Lexington has offices strategically located in major centers for private equity and alternative investing - New York, Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago, São Paulo and Luxembourg.
Linnovate Partners is a leading asset services provider focused on driving innovation in the alternative investments industry. With expertise across the entire fund lifecycle, Linnovate Partners goes beyond traditional fund administration to provide value-added services and technologies that empower asset and fund managers to excel in their operations. Its six core service areas include:
Powering these services is a proprietary, cloud-based platform, RAISE, that provides all the functions of alternative investing in a single ecosystem and enables seamless integration and accessibility. With offices globally, Linnovate Partners currently administers over $120 billion in assets across more than 600 private equity and venture capital funds. As an innovation-focused disruptor, Linnovate Partners combines deep industry expertise and the latest technologies to drive better outcomes for alternative investment managers and investors worldwide.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management strives to provide outstanding long-term investment performance, service, and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Morgan Stanley Investment Management, together with its investment advisory affiliates, has more than $1.7 trillion in assets under management or supervision as of December 31, 2024. Professionals across the globe draw upon these capabilities to develop strategies that address a wide range of investors’ needs across the public and private markets.
Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds with total assets under management of €80bn+ across two core asset classes, private equity and credit. The Permira private equity funds have made 300+ investments in five key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare, Services and Climate. Permira Credit is one of Europe’s leading specialist credit investors, supporting businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, CLO Management and Strategic Opportunities. Permira employs over 500 people in 16 offices across Europe, the United States and Asia.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has approximately 1,500 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.
The Firm regularly advises on market-defining fundraisings in Japan and has incomparable experience advising clients on fundraisings for Japan-focused funds. Complementing the Firm’s global preeminent private funds practice, our Japan team offer advice on funds across asset classes and strategies, including private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure, energy/renewable energy, secondaries, technology and growth/venture, as well as on SMAs and other alternative investment products and strategies.
Active in Asia for almost three decades, Simpson Thacher advises on transactions and matters throughout the region, including in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. We offer one of the largest on-the-ground teams, with multiple language capabilities, including Japanese, Mandarin and Korean. Our Tokyo and Hong Kong-based funds lawyers practice New York, English and Hong Kong law.
T Capital Partners is a pioneer of private equity firm in Japan. T Capital has been engaged in the buyout investment business for over 25 years since establishing its first fund in 1998, at the inception of the Japanese private equity market. T Capital have established six funds with a cumulative total of approximately 220 billion yen under management and have consistently secured stable investments and investment performance. Most recently, T Capital established the sixth fund (approx. 80 billion yen) in 2020 and the fifth fund (approx. 50 billion yen) in 2016, contributing to support corporate growth. T Capital focus on mid-sized companies that have core corporate capabilities, those which hold good technology or business models unsurpassed by others. All investment professionals sincerely work together under our slogan “Trust” to solve the management issues of our portfolio companies to "make good companies even better companies.
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 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 and has a strong track record of portfolio company value creation and realizations.
Longreach currently has 19 investment professionals located in Tokyo and Hong Kong. The firm also enjoys the support of prominent and highly committed Advisors located in Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, London, New York, and Dallas.
Tracing its history to 1928, Wellington Management is one of the world’s largest independent investment management firms, serving as a trusted adviser to over 3,000 clients in more than 60 countries. The firm manages more than US$1.2 trillion, including US$35+ billion in alternatives. As a private partnership whose only business is investment management, the firm is able to align its long-term views and interests with those of its clients. The firm offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets, including equity, fixed income, multi-asset, sustainable investing, and alternative strategies as well as private assets.
Our private equity team includes specialists who draw on our backgrounds as entrepreneurs, doctors, and scientists. We tap into the firm’s broad investment capabilities, and believe our reputation, deep industry expertise, and asset size attract a wide range of potential private investments. We invest globally in a wide range of deals across the private market spectrum and are able to invest in small private companies as well as participate in large capital raises.
All figures are for the Wellington Management Group of companies as of 31 December 2024.
WERU Investment is the first university-fueled asset management company in Japan. Our goal is to drive innovation and corporate growth through the capital market. We hold a discretionary investment management license in Japan and manage VC, PE, equity, and credit funds catering to our clients’ needs.
In our venture capital investment, we invest in global seed and early stage technology startups, investing in innovation and new businesses not only in Japan but around the world. In particular, we build original hypotheses from insights garnered through abductive research of industry and technology trends, taking a long-term perspective in investment and support of seed and early stage startups to grow as born-global companies.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (www.simpsonthacher.com) is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has approximately 1,500 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.
The Firm regularly advises on market-defining fundraisings in Japan and has incomparable experience advising clients on fundraisings for Japan-focused funds. Complementing the Firm’s global preeminent private funds practice, our Japan team offer advice on funds across asset classes and strategies, including private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure, energy/renewable energy, secondaries, technology and growth/venture, as well as on SMAs and other alternative investment products and strategies.
Active in Asia for almost three decades, Simpson Thacher advises on transactions and matters throughout the region, including in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. We offer one of the largest on-the-ground teams, with multiple language capabilities, including Japanese, Mandarin and Korean. Our Tokyo and Hong Kong-based funds lawyers practice New York, English and Hong Kong law.
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