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Why private equity is shunning Asia’s capital markets

Date: January 2010

By Tom Young - ALP

Although Asia's capital markets are bubbling, private equity investors in Hong Kong are shunning its prescriptive listing requirements and longer lock-in periods of IPOs.

While there has been a rise in listings generally, with 69 in Hong Kong last year, raising $30.8 billion, private equity-led exits have been rare.


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