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HarbourVest Partners, LLC is an independent global alternative investment firm and an SEC-registered investment advisor. HarbourVest provides investment programs for institutional investors to invest in venture capital, buyout, mezzanine debt, and distressed debt. HarbourVest invests in these sectors globally through primary partnerships, secondary purchases, and direct investments. HarbourVest and its subsidiaries have 235 employees, including 82 investment professionals deployed in Boston, London, and Hong Kong. In over 28 years of investing in private equity, the team has committed more than $20 billion to newly-formed funds, representing relationships with 200 private equity managers. The team has also completed $6.2 billion in secondary purchases and invested $3.8 billion directly in operating companies. The firm’s clients consist of 300 institutional investors, including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and financial institutions throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Allegro Private Equity is an independent Australian private equity manager owned and operated by its principals.
An operationally focussed manager with a hands on style, Allegro invests primarily in mid-market businesses in Australia and New Zealand with an enterprise value of up to $150M, including:
- Businesses that require fresh capital to grow or to fund a change in ownership and thereby bring about a step change in the business; and
- Distressed businesses that require capital to fund a restructure or affect profit improvement initiatives to unlock growth potential.
The Allegro team have a proven operational track record in acting as CEO, COO and General Manager in companies undergoing significant change. This experience was instrumental in Allegro’s appointment by institutional investors to be replacement manager of the $300M ABN AMRO Capital II Fund.
Allegro currently manages over A$300M in committed capital and its four active portfolio companies comprise Babies Galore, CH2, Discovery Holiday Parks and the Bluestone Group.
Aon Mergers & Acquisitions Group (AMAG) is the leading provider of insurance due diligence advice and transaction liability solutions to the private equity community in the Asia-Pacific region.
For insurance due diligence, our objective is to complement the work of other advisers by identifying insurable risk and cost issues that would otherwise not be considered in depth but which will have an impact on financial modeling, deal price negotiations and acceptance of liabilities by a buyer.
Our transaction liability solutions team structures deal facilitating insurance products including Warranty & Indemnity Insurance, Tax Liability, IPO (Prospectus) Liability and others. These products reduce or remove uncertainty around the cost of potential liabilities and allow buyers and sellers to proceed with deals that may otherwise have failed. In 2008 alone, AMAG Asia Pacific has closed more than 20 Warranty & Indemnity and Tax placements.
Archer Capital is one of Australia’s leading private equity investment houses with over $2billion in funds under management and the longest track record of any leveraged buyout manager in Australia.
Archer Capital is an established market leader in LBO transactions in Australia. Since 1998, Archer Capital has closed over 25 acquisitions involving total aggregate funding in excess of $4 billion.
Archer Capital is unique in the Australian buyout industry in that our team possesses significant operational and general management experience. Archer Capital executives have a mix of FMCG, retailing, manufacturing and distribution line management experience. A hands-on, operational approach is an essential part of Archer Capital’s investment process from investment assessment to ongoing investment management. We believe our operational experience, combined with our expertise in funding and structuring deals, allows us to be much better equipped as partners and custodians in the management of operating businesses.
The Group is an independent direct investment fund manager, based in Hong Kong, which specializes in providing hybrid debt/equity capital. The Group and its constituents invest in the strategic development – major expansions, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, recapitalizations, privatizations and buyouts – of promising medium-sized companies operating throughout Asia. They partner with companies, private equity sponsors and their advisers by providing longer-term hybrid capital, which is structured with a combination of debt and equity components. Investments range from US$10 million up to US$100 million.
AMCG also serves as a fiduciary for global institutional investor clients interested in alternative asset investment in Asia with a more conservative risk/reward profile. The Group is a credit-oriented investment manager, which aims to generate superior risk-adjusted returns from a combination of current income and capital appreciation by protecting capital and participating in equity.
The CHAMP Group is Australia’s pioneering private equity firm with a continued track record of success over 22 years and 8 funds. Headquartered in Sydney, CHAMP Private Equity, focuses on middle-market buyout investments in the Australasian market. The CHAMP Group was established in 1987, when founders Bill Ferris and Joe Skrzynski established Australian Mezzanine Investments Pty Ltd, which raised the first institutionally funded private equity fund in Australia focusing on expansion / growth equity investments. In 2000, an affiliation with Castle Harlan, a leading US mid-market buyout group, was formalized, combining the breadth of experience and networks of the two firms to create CHAMP Private Equity, dedicated to buyouts.
The CHAMP Group operating from Sydney, Brisbane and Singapore is uniquely positioned to pursue investments in high-quality companies at favourable prices. The majority of CHAMP III investments will be in Australia and New Zealand with a small minority in Southeast Asia.
The CHAMP Group has invested in 70 companies and completed 40 exits, achieving a Gross IRR of over 30% since inception in 1987.
Coller Capital is the leading investor in private equity secondaries worldwide, with approximately $8 billion under management.
We acquire positions in venture capital, buyout and mezzanine funds, together with portfolios of companies or stakes in companies, from institutions, corporates, government bodies and family offices. Our investment in any one transaction ranges from $1 million to more than $1 billion.
In 2007, Coller Capital closed the world's largest secondaries fund, Coller International Partners V, with capital commitments of $4.8 billion and participation from 200 of the world's leading institutional investors. The firm's investments range in size from $1 million to more than $1 billion.
Coller Capital has a truly multinational investment team and a global reach.
Clearwater Capital Partners, LLC
Clearwater Capital Partners, LLC (“Clearwater” or the “Firm") is an investment firm founded in December 2001 to invest in special situations and distressed or otherwise undervalued assets and securities located in Asia, excluding Japan (the “Asia Region”). Clearwater’s investment strategy is to leverage its distinct advantages in due diligence and execution capabilities across local currencies, languages and jurisdictions to build a diversified, cash generative and non-correlating portfolio of investments in the Asia Region.
Clearwater combines the disciplines of private equity and credit investing to capitalize on what the Firm perceives to be a historic opportunity for special situations investing in the Asia Region. Clearwater’s investment portfolios are diversified across various economies that comprise the Asia Region and over 25 industries.
Clearwater has more than 75 professionals across its six primary offices, located in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Seoul and Beijing. The Firm manages approximately $1.7 billion and has completed approximately 250 investments.
Helmsman Funds Management Limited
Helmsman Funds Management Limited (“Helmsman”) is a special situation investor that has raised over $140 million from institutional and sophisticated investors to provide a combination of turnaround capital and restructuring expertise to underperforming businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
The type of investments Helmsman undertakes include financial restructures, operational turnarounds, industry consolidation and debt for subsequent ownership or control.
Helmsman targets businesses with enterprise values between $10m and $150m in all sectors, except for extractive mining and direct real estate.
Helmsman commenced operations in 2002 as trustee and manager of the Helmsman Capital Fund (HCF), a demonstration fund to prove up the concept of special situations investing in Australia and New Zealand.
On the back of the successful performance of HCF (Net IRR of 40%), Helmsman completed its fund raising in 2008 for Helmsman Capital Fund II (HCF II), a $96.75m fund which is presently 46% invested across four investments.
Ironbridge was established in 2003. It is independently owned and managed by the four managing partners; Neil Broekhuizen, Paul Evan, Julian Knights, Greg Ruddock.
Ironbridge is a leading provider of private equity for growth businesses in the Australasian marketplace. We currently manage 2003 and 2006 vintage funds with a total of $1.5b funds under management.
Ironbridge is focused on investments in medium to large sized management buy-out and expansion capital transactions in Australia and New Zealand.
The Investment Team is one of the most experienced teams operating in the Australasian market. With combined experience of 50 board seats and 90 years of direct private equity experience, the diverse background of the Team enables Ironbridge to participate in a wide range of transaction types, with a high proportion of proprietary deals.
J.P. Morgan Treasury Services is a leading global provider of escrow services. We have a dedicated team of experts providing comprehensive solutions and helping our clients to complete escrow arrangements quickly, accurately and securely - in many cases, within 24 to 48 hours.
Our escrow servicing centres in Sydney, Hong Kong and Mumbai offer a full range of escrow services for attorneys, accountants and other financial professionals involved in mergers & acquisitions, capital raising or other transactions that require escrow strategies. Typical uses for escrow include:
- M&A Escrow: Holdbacks, good faith deposits, and other monies held to facilitate an M&A transaction and to ensure compliance with representations and warranties, or performance covenants;
- Subscription Escrow: Funds held pending successful IPO or other forms of capital raising;
- Split Fee Escrow: A revenue stream passes through the escrow agent for subsequent disbursement.
Established in 1976, KKR is one of the world’s oldest and most experienced private equity firms, with offices in New York, Menlo Park, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo, and Sydney. Over the past 34 years, KKR has completed over 170 transactions with a total aggregate value of more than US$425 billion.
Since 2005, KKR has invested approximately US$3 billion of equity capital in twelve Asian transactions. In Australia, KKR completed the A$1.8 billion buyout of BIS Cleanaway, the leading provider of outsourced support services to the mining and metals industry, and the A$4.0 billion 50/50 JV of Seven Media Group, Australia’s leading free-to-air TV group, magazine portfolio and internet portal. Other Asian Investments include: Avago (Singapore), Aricent (India), MMI (Singapore), Tianrui (China), Yageo (Taiwan), Bharti Infratel (India), Unisteel (Singapore), Modern Farming (China), Oriental Brewery (South Korea) and Far Eastern Leasing (China).
KPMG is one of the leading providers of Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG member firms respond to clients' complex business challenges with a global approach to services that spans industry sectors and national boundaries.
The KPMG Private Equity Group brings together our leading transaction advisory, deal origination and M&A Tax professionals who work full time on deals for the private equity funds. They combine industry specific skills with a deep understanding of the requirements of private equity funds as they search out the value enhancing attributes of each deal.
KPMG Advisory professionals provide advice and assistance to enable companies, intermediaries and public sector bodies to mitigate risk, improve performance, and create value in relation to both transactions as well as their everyday activities.
KPMG's Tax services are designed to reflect the unique needs and objectives of each client, KPMG firms work with their clients to assist them in achieving effective tax compliance and managing tax risks, while helping to control costs.
Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) is the largest and most active fund of its kind in the region. We seek to acquire control positions in selected businesses and provide Management with the resources to achieve exceptional returns in an unlisted environment. We invest in opportunities with enterprise values of between A$250M and a Billion, and with high potential competitive positions in stable industries. Operating companies are frequently very active in adding further acquisitions.
In terms of liquidity and returns PEP has been fortunate over the last 10 years to be among the best performers in the industry worldwide.
Sankaty Advisors, LLC, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, LLC, is one of the nation’s leading private managers of fixed income and credit instruments. With over $25 billion in committed capital, Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities and investments, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equities. Sankaty has over 70 investment professionals with offices in Boston, London and Chicago.
Tasman Capital Partners is an independent private equity firm specialising in turnaround, buyout and growth capital investments in the Australian and New Zealand middle market.
Founded in September 2008, following a successful transition from Nikko Citigroup, the Tasman team is one of the most experienced in Australia. Since 1999 the team has invested A$400 million in 13 middle market companies of which it subsequently exited seven.
Prior to Nikko Citigroup, the majority of the team worked together at DB Capital Partners until 2006 where they led various successful investments including; Loscam, Tempo Services, Healthcare Australia, Wizard, Bledisloe Group and Pacific Apparel Solutions.
Tasman's disciplined and proactive approach together with their hands on experience in business turnarounds and increasing earnings through active management enables Tasman to partner with management to identify and unlock business potential and maximise value for investors.
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ("WCAS") is the largest and most successful private equity firm focused on two industry sectors: information/business services and healthcare. Since the firm’s founding in 1979, WCAS has organized 15 limited partnerships with total capital of $20 billion. WCAS is currently investing a $3.85 billion equity fund, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XI, L.P., and a $1.3 billion dedicated subordinated debt fund, WCAS Capital Partners IV, L.P.
WCAS’s strategy is to buy growth businesses in our target industries and build value through both internal growth and acquisitions. The firm differentiates itself from other private equity firms by our industry specialization, investment track record, operational investment focus, proprietary deal flow, repeat management teams and the experience of its General Partners. In information/business services, WCAS has invested a total of $6.0 billion of equity in 89 portfolio companies and has generated a 30% internal rate of return and a 2.3 times investment multiple on 78 realized or publicly traded investments. In healthcare, WCAS has invested a total of $5.6 billon of equity in 73 portfolio companies and has produced a 25% internal rate of return and a 2.3 times investment multiple on 61 realized or publicly traded investments.
Allens Arthur Robinson is Australia's leading corporate law firm with a cutting edge private equity team. The Allens team draws on local and international experts in M&A, capital markets, banking and finance, funds management and tax in order to provide legal services across Asia to leading private equity firms, venture capital investors, corporates, underwriters and financiers across the full range of private equity transactions including: asset and company acquisitions; management buy-outs and buy-ins; leveraged buyouts; fundraising and establishment of funds; early and expansion-stage venture capital investment in both emerging and mature industries; debt financing; and exits via IPOs, trade sales and private placements.
Most recently, Allens advised on the acquisitions of MYOB by Archer/HarbourVest, and Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group by Canada Pension Plan. Our wider experience includes advising on some of the largest private equity bids in Australian history, including the private equity bid for Qantas, INM's bid for APN, and Coates Hire's acquisition by National Hire and Carlyle. Allens has also advised on numerous other transactions involving private equity participants including acquisitions, take private transactions, 'stub equity' transactions and various forms of disposal.
Capital IQ, a Standard & Poor's business, provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to over 2,700 leading firms, including many of the world’s leading private equity and venture capital firms. Completely web-based, Capital IQ uniquely combines deep fundamental and market data on public and private companies, investment firms, people, corporate relationships, and transactions with a broad range of easy-to-use tools for financial analyses, screening, targeting, and managing projects. Capital IQ can help private capital investors evaluate opportunities more efficiently, enhance deal flow, and add value to portfolio companies.
The Wall Street Journal Asia is the leader in global business news for Asia. Since 1976, it has provided indispensable news and analysis of regional and global business developments for an influential pan-Asian audience of corporate and government decision-makers. The Journal Asia has been voted Asia’s most “important business reading” in every ABRS study since the survey’s inception in 1985…
The Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL) is the national association that represents the venture capital industry’s participants, promotes the industry and encourages investment in growing business enterprises.
Membership comprises venture capital firms, institutional investors, banks, incubators, angels, corporate advisors, accountants, lawyers, government bodies, academic institutions and other service providers to the industry.
AVCAL’s investor members represent most of the active funds. These firms provide capital for seed and pre-seed ventures, early stage companies, later stage expansion, and finance for management buyouts and buy-ins of established companies. There are almost 60 investor members with $10 billion invested or available for investment.
The Institutional Limited Partners Association is a not-for-profit association committed to serving limited partner investors in the global private equity industry by providing a forum for:
- Facilitating value-added communication
- Enhancing education in the asset class
- Promoting research and standards in the private equity industry
Based out of London, New York, and Hong Kong, IE Consulting is a strategy consulting team, focusing on the needs of General Partners and other practitioners in the global private equity and venture capital markets, as well as hedge fund managers and institutional asset managers.
