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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. Our professionals work closely with the management of portfolio companies, embedding ‘best practices’ and helping build value prior to exit. Depending on the exit route, we also help prepare companies for IPO or manage the sales process.
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.
KPMG – Dedicated to Private Equity.
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.
Bain Capital is one of the world's leading private investments firms managing several pools of capital including private equity, growth capital, public equity, debt securities and absolute return capital. Since its inception in 1984, Bain Capital has made private equity investments in over 300 companies around the world. Bain's competitive advantage is a value-added investment approach with a large and experienced team of investment professionals working as a globally integrated team. Bain Capital's portfolio companies have over US$100 billion in revenues. Headquartered in Boston, Bain Capital has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mumbai, New York, Chicago, London and Munich.
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.
Guernsey International Finance Centre
Guernsey International Finance Centre is increasingly being recognised by leading fund sponsors and promoters as the jurisdiction of choice for their business – no matter whether traditional or alternative.
The Island has an infrastructure and expertise that is world class: experienced fund managers, administrators and custodians; pragmatic regulation; fast track capability; modern legislation; competitive tax environment; bespoke IT solutions; accounting services; and legal expertise.
Promoters and sponsors from India are particularly attracted to using Guernsey because the Island’s location between the UK and France not only means that it is in a convenient time zone for doing business but – together with the presence of a local stock exchange – is ideal for accessing European markets.
Established in 1997 and listed on the National Stock Exchange of India Limited and Bombay Stock Exchange in 2005, IDFC is a new generation, specialised Indian financial institution focused on infrastructure and related assets. It owns a leading domestic investment bank and has a growth mandate in private equity and asset management. As at 31 December 2009, IDFC had a market capitalization in excess of USD 4 Billion.
Today, IDFC is the sponsor behind one of the largest pools of private equity capital in India focused on infrastructure and infrastructure-related investments, with aggregate commitments in excess of USD 2.3 billion managed by three subsidiary entities:
- IDFC Private Equity is India’s largest and most active private equity firm focused on infrastructure
- IDFC Project Equity manages the Indian Infrastructure Fund which invests in long-term structured equity in core infrastructure projects
- IDFC Capital (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (“IDFC Capital”) manages an Asian focused emerging markets private equity fund of funds business.
IL&FS Investment Managers Limited
IIML, a subsidiary of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), is well-established as one of the largest private equity fund managers in India. Total commitments to IIML’s funds have grown from less than US$ 40 million in 1996 to US$ 2.6 billion today. Current investors in IIML-managed investment vehicles include major U.S. and international pension plans, endowments and foundations
IIML’s team of 43 professionals manage a number of private equity investment funds, which are invested across a variety of sectors including technology, media, retail, consumer services, manufacturing, real estate and infrastructure
During the course of the last 14 years, IIML has raised and managed 9 Funds, of which 3 Funds were fully divested in 2007-08, providing attractive returns to their contributors. This experience across Fund cycles is a unique for any Indian Private Equity Fund Manager
IIML is listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange
Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd
Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd (Milestone Group) is a professionally managed company providing investment management services on various funds & schemes to Indian & global investors across various asset classes. The group combines extensive national vision with local insight with a team of professionals operating out of its Mumbai based headquarters.
Milestone advises 8 eight schemes, including 1 offshore scheme, targeting an investor base of non-institutional investors including high net-worth individuals, and institutional investors including insurance companies, banks, pension funds & corporate houses.
The Milestone business attributes its success to constantly listening to investors and responding to their needs with innovative investor friendly products. Milestone believes that it has the ability to recognize investment opportunities, which help raise capital and deploy the same in a manner designed to maximize long-term value.
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.
IntraLinks®, the world’s leading provider of critical information exchange solutions, connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime, using a web browser.
IntraLinks has 750,000 active users representing 90,000 organizations worldwide and 3,500 industry-leading clients. Since IntraLinks’ inception, 55,000 transactions have been facilitated. IntraLinks does business with 800 of the fortune 1000. IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world.
DMLT is an independent company offering a suite of Web-based financial reporting and fundraising products to the alternative asset community under the brand name Investment CaféTM.
DMLT serves firms managing over $150 billion in capital commitments with over 46,000 investors in more than 120 countries. DMLT’s flagship product, the Investment Café Reporting, Fundraising and Capital Call Management System has been the system of choice because it addresses the unique needs of the investor, and provides productivity tools that significantly reduce the burden of fund administration. The product is in use by many of the world’s largest private equity firms. In addition to providing its technology to the private equity industry, DMLT also offers its reporting systems within the alternative investment arena to real estate, venture, mezzanine, debt, hedge funds, and fund-of-funds. DMLT has offices in New York, Florida, Chicago, India and Hong Kong.
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…
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.
