Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
The Paris-based manager likes the look of the country's mid-market and sees hiring and investment opportunities as challenges.
The Asian direct secondaries firm has hired Motoya Kitamura, previously founder of Roc Partners, as managing partner.
Chris Cho, who joined the Adams Street Partners this month from Lazard Asset Management, will head the firm's Seoul outpost as a principal.
The bank has previously made secondaries sales of private equity assets to groups including Goldman Sachs and Coller Capital.
The San Francisco-based fund of funds manager will invest the bulk of capital in Asia-focused funds, while maintaining capital to make co-investments or secondaries transactions.
The $1.9trn investor wants to mitigate the J-curve effect in the first three years of its private equity programme.
A 'flood of capital' in secondaries has pushed up valuations for flow names, according to the investment firm's Asia-Pacific private equity co-head.
The firm expects to have raised around $1.5bn by October for its latest fund of funds that can invest up to 30% in secondaries and direct co-investments.
Shunsuke Tanahashi joined the global investment manager in April from secondaries advisory firm and placement agent Ark Totan Alternative.
The Japanese pension giant has received 23 proposals from private equity funds of funds in its first recruitment drive for external managers for alternatives.