Mergermarket M&A Forum Southeast Asia 2023
The premier M&A forum in Southeast Asia
The Westin Singapore and Online
25
Apr
Private equity in Southeast Asia dealmaking
Amid significant economic headwinds and diminished M&A activity, private equity, which has been less affected by external market factors, continues to be a more reliable source of deals. Although deploying capital and returns might be more challenging, the opportunities for PE are there to be taken, albeit with an increased focus on operational efficiencies, value creation, and digitalisation. Our panel of leading private equity managers will share their views on the current market opportunities.
How big is the role of private equity in regional dealmaking?
Which emerging sectors are capturing the interest of private equity?
Is there more competition for assets between private equity and strategic buyers? Is there space for collaboration instead of competition?
What challenges are likely to affect deals?
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SpeakersBenny Lim Partner & Head of Southeast Asia AFFINITY EQUITY PARTNERS
Lifen Tang Director, Investments Legal OMERS
Thomas Lanyi Head Southeast Asia CDH INVESTMENTS
Alvin Lim Senior Managing Director CVC CAPITAL PARTNERS
Alex Chan VP Strategy & Development, Asia Pacific AMCOR
Avnish Mehra Vice Chairman & Head Private Equity EVERSTONE CAPITAL
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Mr Benny Lim is the Partner and Head of Southeast Asia for Affinity Equity Partners (“Affinity”), overseeing Affinity’s investment activities in Southeast Asia.
Mr Lim has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, of which he has spent more than 12 years in Affinity. He has led late-stage growth and buyout transactions across the consumer, healthcare and financial services sectors in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand for the firm.
Mr Lim received a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from Monash University, Australia and is also a CFA charterholder.
Lifen is Director, Investments Legal for the OMERS Capital Markets business in Asia. She is responsible for the legal affairs of OMERS Capital Markets Asia and is a member of the investment team.
Prior to her current role, Lifen was General Counsel at a private credit investment firm. She was a lawyer for over a decade at Allen & Overy and Ashurst in London and Singapore, focusing on complex cross-border financings and restructurings. She completed client secondments to Royal Bank of Scotland and Standard Chartered Bank in London and Singapore. Earlier in her career, she was a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
Lifen has a BA and MA in Law from Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is admitted as a lawyer in England and Wales and Singapore.
Dr. Lanyi is a senior Private Equity professional with 19 years of experience. Based in Singapore, he currently serves as a Managing Director at CDH Investments, where he co-leads CDH's Southeast Asian and global 'Cross-border' investment activities.
Established in 2001, CDH is one of the most well-established alternative assets fund management companies in China, managing close to US$20billion in client assets across different strategies and funds. The firm specializes in investment opportunities in the consumer and healthcare sectors.
Prior to joining CDH, Dr. Lanyi held senior roles at Mekong Capital and Templeton Private Equity. Dr. Lanyi lived in Vietnam between 2007-2012 and continues to manage CDH's office in HCMC.
Dr. Lanyi is the Chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA).
Prior to joining CVC in June 2016, Alvin spent over 11 years with HSBC where he was Head of Investment Banking for Southeast Asia. Prior to that, he worked for the investment banking division of Citigroup / Schroders for over 7 years in Singapore and the UK working on transactions across Asia and Europe. He started his career with the corporate finance division of Coopers & Lybrand. Alvin graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Economics) degree specializing in accounting & finance and he is also a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst.
Alex is currently VP Strategy & Development, Asia Pacific for Amcor, a $15 billion ASX-listed global leading supplier of flexible and rigid plastic packaging to well-known FMCG and Pharma brands. Before seconded to the current management role, he was Vice President, Head of Asia M&A when he completed nine acquisitions and led numerous others in Emerging Asia and Middle East/Africa for Amcor.
He has over 15 years of experience in leading M&A transactions and managing acquired businesses in Asia as corporate & financial owner and as advisor. He launched the ex-Japan Asia private equity investment business of leading Japanese buyout fund Advantage Partners and closed several investments that generated attractive capital gain for the fund. While at Coca-Cola and McKinsey Asia Corporate Finance Group, he led transactions of various sizes across Asia. He also advised private equity funds and corporations in Europe and Asia on investment and post-merger restructuring during his tenure at Bain & Company.
Avnish Mehra is Vice Chairman and head of Everstone Capital, the private equity business of Everstone Group, which manages c. USD 7 billion of capital. He is also responsible for leading investments in the global technology, media and telecom sectors. Avnish is a member of the Investment Committee of Everstone Capital.
Prior to Everstone, he played a leading role as Senior Director in establishing the India business for Advent International, before which he was with Advent in Europe in the technology and media team. Avnish has also worked with leading firms in Asia and Europe, including HSBC, CIBC, ABN and Virgin Media. Avnish holds a Bachelor of Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, with a Master of Economics from Cambridge. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder from the CFA Institute in the USA.
At Everstone, Avnish is on the board of the following investee companies:
- MediaMint (HQ: India) – a technology led company focussed on outsourcing of advertising & media operations for global agencies, publishers & adtech platforms
- Cprime (HQ: California, USA) – a leading global Dev Ops & Agile technology consulting firm that provides implementation along with other technical services
- Everise (HQ: Singapore) – a technology enabled customer experience solutions provider serving the US healthcare and technology end markets with delivery centers across USA, Guatemala, Colombia and Philippines
- Omega Healthcare (HQ: Florida, USA) – a technology led company providing healthcare outsourcing solutions to healthcare insurance payers, providers and pharmaceutical firms with delivery centers across USA, India and Philippines