Our Practice Areas

Alternative investment practice is led by Rick Johannessen. Our alternative investment practice works with traditional hedge funds and private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, family offices, and the principal investment groups within larger financial services firms. Over the last decade, we have placed world-class investment professionals and fund operations/infrastructure professionals across all levels into some of the best performing funds globally.

Our clients include firms of all capitalization across a range of investment strategies including:

• Hedge fund: equity long/short, credit, event-driven and special situations;
• Private equity: buyouts, growth equity, mezzanine, distressed debt /special situations, real estate, infrastructure, and;
• Fund of funds: primary, secondary and direct co-investments.

Collectively our team has worked on hundreds of buy-side searches across all of the major markets in Asia. Our search offering can be defined as:

• Investment Analyst/Deal Professionals at all levels
  • From pre-MBA Analysts and Associates to Portfolio Managers and Partners
• Investor Relations, Capital Raising & Fund Marketing at all levels
• Fund Infrastructure Professionals
  • COO, CFO, Controllers, GCs and, Risk & Compliance

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Hong Kong

London

Mumbai

Shanghai

Singapore

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Our Asset Management practice is led by Edward Cheung. Within Asset Management, our recruiting experience spans institutional, mutual fund and high net-worth organizations, funds of funds, endowments, foundations and family offices in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Our assignments include searches for CEO, CIO, COO and other senior management roles; portfolio management research, product specialists, sales, marketing and client servicing, risk management, finance, legal and compliance.

Product areas include:

• Equity
• Fixed Income
• ETFs
• Real Estate
• Other Alternative Investments

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Hong Kong

Shanghai

Singapore

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Our Corporate & Investment Banking practice is led by Christian Brun. We are regarded as a leading competitor in the industry. The Practice focuses on all areas of Corporate Finance, M&A and Financing:

• Covering every country in the region including China; Hong Kong; South Korea; Taiwan; Singapore; Malaysia; Thailand; Indonesia; Philippines; India & Australia
• Across all product areas including Corporate Finance; M&A; Debt Capital Markets; Equity Capital Markets; & Leveraged & Acquisition Finance
• Across all sector teams including Telecoms, Media & Technology; Financial Institutions; Natural Resources & Power; Transport & Infrastructure; Real Estate; General Industrials; and Financial Sponsors

Our core clients in Investment Banking are a select number of US, European and Asian bulge bracket firms, advisory businesses and new entrants. Since inception we have placed over 250 bankers with those clients, through key strategic hires, team moves and business builds. We address our clients’ needs at all levels from Managing Directors to Associates.

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Hong Kong

London

Mumbai

Shanghai

Singapore

Our Global Markets business is led by Loretta Chan. Our approach has been to work with a select group of clients across the full scope of businesses in all areas of Fixed Income Currency & Commodities, Debt Capital Markets, Equities and Financing.

Our team has a strong track record in placing professionals across Asia ex Japan and has completed searches for investment banks, commercial banks, boutiques and new business build-outs.  We work strategically with our clients to address their hiring needs from MDs to Associates and have started to adopt a collaborative team approach allowing for cross pollination and access to a larger pool of talent. 

FICC/DCM coverage:

• Fixed Income Sales & Research
  • Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates, Credit and Derivatives
• Structurers
  • Credit, Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange and hybrid structurers
• Fixed Income Trading
  • Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange and Credit
• Debt Capital Markets
  • Sovereign, High Yield, FIG and Credit Rating Advisory
• Corporate Derivatives
  • Foreign Exchange, Interest Rates, Credit, Commodities and Equity- linked
• Private Financing / Structured Lending
  • Originators, Structurers and Traders
• Securitization
  • Originators, Executors and Financial Modelers
• Structured and Project Finance
  • Origination, Structuring and Execution
• Acquisition & Event-driven Financing
  • Origination and Syndication

Equity and Equity Derivatives:

• Regional/Country Heads of Product: Equities, Convertibles, Derivatives
• Equity Sales and Sales Trading: Research sales, High-touch, Low-touch
• Equity Derivative Sales and Structuring
• Equity Research: Strategy, Economics, Sector
• Quantitative, Derivative and Strategy Research and Sales
• Trading including Electronic, DMA, Program, Flow/Volatility, Client and Proprietary
• Prime Services

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Mumbai

Our Infrastructure practice covers all support and control functions across risk, compliance, legal & audit.

Our clients span the complete spectrum of Financial Services firms ranging from the leading global financial institutions to boutiques; investment & wholesale banks, as well as wealth & asset management including private equity funds, alternatives and insurers.

Working across the Asia Pacific region the team conducts managing director and director level appointments, with a focus on senior level management across the following functions:

• Risk, Legal & Compliance
• Finance & Audit
• Strategy
• Operations & Technology
• Treasury

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Our team is highly specialised in partnering with both global and domestic insurance companies in Asia Pacific across all leadership, board, functional and technical positions.

We are proud to have worked with the industry’s leading multinational (re)insurers in hiring both regional and in-country leadership positions; and with newly capitalised start-ups in Asia.

Our team possesses strong market relationships coupled with the cultural sensitivities required to operate with ease across the region in countries including: Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan, China, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam.

We have in-depth experience recruiting across:

• Life
• Health
• Property & Casualty
• Specialty
• General Insurance
• Reinsurance
• Brokerage
• Actuarial
• Digital & Insurtech
• Related financial services