AVCJ Private Equity Forum 2024 - Japan | ION Analytics | 25 June 2024 | Conrad Tokyo, 1 Chome-9-1 Higashishinbashi, Minato City, Tokyo 105-7337, Japan

The event brought together over 1,050 private market professionals including 580+ LPs representing 480+ different organisations from 23 geographies. The conference, which focused on finding attractive deals and liquidity at a time of global market uncertainty, managing portfolios effectively to stay competitive, kicked off with a keynote interview featuring Tadasu Matsuo, Managing Director, Head of Global Alternative Investments at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Hideya Sadanaga, Senior Managing Director, Head of Private Equity Investment Department, at Japan Post Bank, in conversation with Isamu Sai, Partner at Adams Street Partners.

The forum also featured leading executives from KKR, Bain Capital, Apollo Global Management, Advantage Partners, Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company, Carlyle, Denso Pension Fund, BPEA EQT, ORIX Life Insurance Corporation, CVC Capital Partners and NSSK speaking on a number of well-researched topics including the impact of macro conditions on alternatives and navigating market turbulence, how Japan that can provide stable growth and returns for global investors, private debt strategies that offer the best opportunitie, the latest activity in the buyout market, strategies LPs are employing for picking managers and staying committed throughout the cycle, the next step for Japan venture capital for going global and operational value-add at times of uncertainty.

Topics to be discussed:
• HOW will the macroeconomic and political situation affect private market investments?
• WHERE are the most attractive pockets of opportunity globally?
• WHAT makes Japan the Asia destination of choice for LPs?
• WHAT parts of the mid-market still offer the best deals and value for money?
• WHAT sectors in the buyout space are most attractive and open to private equity?
• WHAT is the state of the debt market and how best should investors access it?
• HOW is governance and regulatory pressure driving the activist agenda?
• WHAT strategies are VCs employing to take startups global and what sectors present the best opportunities?

Benefits of attending include:

Network:
• Meet a diverse and powerful group of LPs, GPs and advisors

Fundraising:
• Find the established and emerging domestic and international LPs that are committing capital to alternatives

Japan:
• Discover the latest deal and exit trends at each end of the market

Deals:
• Hear from local and international fund managers and advisors covering a range of strategies

Global view:
• Discover how investors are managing the key macroeconomic and political issues in 2024

2024 Speakers

Keynote Speaker:

Masakazu Kita
Vice President and CIO, University Fund, Japan Science and Technology Agency

SPEAKERS:

Pamela Fung
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Private Equity Solutions

Tad (Takeshi) Fukushima
Chief Investment Officer, The University of Tokyo

Kenichi Endo
Investment Managing Director, Hitachi High-Tech Pension Fund

Xiaodong Chang
Senior Fund Manager, Private Equity Investment Group, Multi Manager Investment Department, Tokio Marine Asset Management

Atsushi Akaike
Managing Partner, Co-Head of Japan, CVC Capital Partners

Shohei Akiyama
Partner, Managing Director, Chief Administrative Officer, NSSK

Ian Anderson
Managing Director, Credit & Markets, KKR

Tim Burroughs
Managing Editor, Asian Venture Capital Journal

Saurabh Chatterjee
Managing Director, ChrysCapital Advisors

Kiichiro DeLuca
Head of Research, Weru Investment

Paul Ford
Partner, Deal Advisory, Head of Private Equity, KPMG FAS Co., Ltd.

Satoshi Fukushima
Partner, Globis Capital Partners

Nels Hansen
Partner, White & Case

Takanobu Hara
Partner, EQT

Hideyuki Ishii
Partner, KPMG FAS Co., Ltd.

Yu Itoki
Managing Director, Private and Growth Equity Investment, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Yuki Kashiyama
Partner, Investment Committee Member, J-STAR Co., Ltd.

Shinichiro Kita
Representative Director/Senior Partner, Advantage Partners

Christopher Kojima
Global Head of Capital Solutions, General Atlantic

Jesper Koll
Executive Director, Monex Group & Japan Catalyst Fund

T.J. Kono
Partner, Unison Capital

Jeffrey Lau
CIO of Private Credit & Special Situations, Partner, Primavera Capital Group

John Y.S. Lee
Partner, Lexington Partners

Omar Mahmoud
Managing Director, Creador Private Equity

Jon McKeown
Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy & Analytics, Northleaf Capital Partners

Masaki Nakamura
Managing Director, KKR

Takayuki Ohgishi
Partner, T Capital

Azusa Owa
Partner, Bain & Company

Kathy Reiland
Investor, Integrum

Toby Rodes
Co-Founder, Kaname Capital

Aaron Sack
Managing Director, Head of Morgan Stanley Capital Partners (MSCP), Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Yutaro Saka
Partner, JAFCO

Michael Shedosky
Managing Director and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Azimut

Toshitaka (Taka) Shimizu
Partner, L Catterton

Nicholas Smith
Japan Strategist, CLSA

Lisa Sun
Managing Director, Co-Head of the Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions, BlackRock

Aya Tanaka
Partner, Director, Asia, Andreessen Horowitz

Takaomi Tomioka
Managing Director, Co-Head, Carlyle Japan

Rafael Torres
Co-Head Pan-European Private Debt, Muzinich & Co

Keitaro “KT” Tsuda
Partner, The Longreach Group

Jun Tsusaka
CEO, CIO and Chairperson of the ESG Committee, NSSK

Jim Verbeeten
Partner, Bain & Company

Steven Wang
Founder & CEO, Highlight Capital

Yiqing Wang
Managing Editor, M&A and ECM, APAC, Mergermarket

Stuart Wrigley
Partner, Head of Client Solutions Group, Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

2024 Sponsors

LEAD SPONSORS:
• General Atlantic
• Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• HarbourVest Partners
• NSSK

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• Bain & Company

CO-SPONSORS:
• Adams Street Partners
• Advantage Partners
• Azimut
• Bain Capital
• BlackRock
• ChrysCapital
• EQT
• Globis Capital Partners
• HighLight Capital (HLC)
• Integrum
• JAFCO
• J-STAR
• KPMG Japan
• L Catterton
• Lexington Partners
• The Longreach Group
• Morgan Stanley Investment Management
• T Capital Partners
• Weru

NETWORKING COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR:
• Intralinks