Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for Private Equity International and editing its daily Side Letter briefing for subscribers.
He joined the business in 2017 and previously covered the EMEA region from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
ASF IX raised capital from around 40 APAC LPs, compared with less than 10 in its predecessor, Greater China head Jason Yao tells Secondaries Investor.
Quilvest Secondaries Fund will primarily target GP-led transactions, though it will include a pocket for shorter duration opportunities, Secondaries Investor understands.
The programme involves both GP-leds and LP-leds, Mathieu Forcioli, global and APAC head of alternatives for HSBC Global Private Banking, tells Secondaries Investor.
Pacific Equity Partners has deployed around 60% of its evergreen wealth product into overseas GP-leds, managing director Alex Ovchar tells Secondaries Investor.
The new designation reflects Schroders Capital's commitment to the increasing GP-led opportunity set, a spokesperson tells Secondaries Investor.
Pak-Seng Lai, former head of APAC private wealth at Blue Owl Capital and head of private markets APAC at UBS, joined Coller's Hong Kong office in October.
Aizawa AM’s third flagship, which held its final close this year, is already 85% deployed, chief executive Shinichiro Shiraki tells Secondaries Investor.
The country’s largest public pension will pursue both private equity and private credit continuation fund opportunities, according to investment policy committee member Sam Y Chung.
A court of appeals decision in the US this week to render null and void the SEC’s private fund rule doesn’t signal the end of efforts to better protect investors.
The firm is seeing two- to three-times more secondaries deal flow than it had for the previous programme, Asia chairman Kevin Lu said at the Milken Institute Global Investor’s Symposium on Tuesday.