Asia is an emerging hotbed for private equity, and that is reflected in the numbers, and limited partners (LPs) have taken note. In 2017, three of the largest funds on the road to raise capital had a focus on this continent, and of the five largest PE funds in the market, four are from Asia.
“Today, Asian economies are almost 40 per cent of the global GDP, up from 25 per cent in the late 1990s. Asian private equity is 12 per cent of global private equity, up from a meagre 5 per cent in 2000,” Yar-Ping Soo, Partner (Singapore), Adams Street Partners, said in an interaction.
