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Founders of Asia s family-owned companies seek private equity exit

Dealmakers across Asia are busy fielding calls from company founders who are mulling letting go of their life’s work as the Covid-19 pandemic has upended how global business is done. After riding the region’s rise over the past decades, family firms that dominate the economic landscape are now also looking for bigger partners, help to modernize management teams and in succession planning, according to consultants, bankers and private equity firms. “We’ve seen founders, particularly the older entrepreneurs, saying there are more challenges in the world now and that they’re thinking about succession issues and management issues,” said Ed Huang, co-head of Asia acquisitions in private equity at Blackstone Group Inc. “Private equity is better understood now as either a potential strategic partner or as an exit path.”

Asia family-owned business: Asia s family-owned firm founders seek private equity exit

Synopsis Publicly listed family firms in Asia have a market capitalization of more than $5.56 trillion, according to Credit Suisse Group AG. In Hong Kong and Singapore 70 per cent and 60 per cent of listed firms, respectively, are family-backed businesses, a report from the Family Firm Institute showed. Reuters Globally, family firms are more pessimistic short-term than non-family run firms, but expect business to normalize quicker three years ahead, a Credit Suisse survey off a data base of more 1,000 firms showed. Dealmakers across Asia are busy fielding calls from company founders who are mulling letting go of their life’s work as the Covid-19 pandemic has upended how global business is done.

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