DC Advisory's Asia Access team featured as The Banker's 'Team of the Month'

The Banker has featured DC Advisory's Asia Access as 'Team of the Month': DC Advisory on Japan’s strategic buyers and guiding Chinese private equity to European targets

Asia Access, Managing Directors, Tosh Kojima and Endong Zhai spoke to The Banker about DC Advisory and its Asia Access team’s secret to executing Asian cross-border deals, having completed more than 260 Asia cross border transactions since it was set up in 2011, with around half involving Europe, 70 with the US, and the remainder intra-Asia. They also discussed the top trends driving deal activity between Asia and the West, including:

The rapid growth of Japanese M&A driven by:

• Buffett effect - Warren Buffett’s investments in Japan have attracted global investors
• Corporate restructuring - Japanese companies have streamlined by selling non-core businesses, often to private equity
• Weakened yen - Japanese companies increasingly attractive to foreign investors
• Governance reforms & investor activism - pressuring firms to prioritize shareholder value over traditional employment security
• Emergence of private equity - both domestic and international PE firms are growing, offering higher returns compared to other markets

Chinese private equity’s firms are investing in Europe due to:

• US / China tensions - driving Chinese expansion into more stable European markets
• Increased PE capital – increased PE capital from Western and Middle Eastern investors
• Deflationary pressures in China – making overseas investment attractive

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