Our Value for Private Equity Investors:

Emerging Asia provides an investment life-cycle suite of services for private equity investors with exposure in emerging markets.

Gains in developed markets have been lackluster, and many investors are diversifying their portfolios to capture some of the value being created by the dynamic economies in Asia. While Asia's emerging markets remain politically volatile, investors able to take calculated risks can expect to gain outsized profits.

Having learned the lessons of the previous decade, investors are looking for very high quality information and analysis before they invest, and they are closely following market and political risk indicators.

Emerging Asia can conduct a thorough market assessment of investments ranging in size from private SMEs to large publicly traded companies and state enterprises in the process of being privatized.

In emerging markets, politics shapes business outcomes as significantly as commercial strategy does. Emerging Asia also monitors portfolios, and briefs clients when market or political developments may affect investments.

1. Identification and Screening

Emerging Asia can identify promising prospects within an industry or sector

► Conduct initial screening based on primary and secondary market-based criteria, e.g.,

• Current position and trajectory vs. competition
• Financial highlights
• Key customers, suppliers, and partners

► Narrow the field to 1-3 top prospects

→ Enable our client to make the best use of their resources for conducting financial due diligence

2. Due Diligence

Emerging Asia specializes in market analysis and clients can outsource most or all market-related diligence to us

► Conduct complete business model assessment of short-list:

• Drivers of financial success
• Markets and customers
• Products and services
• Distribution channel
• Competitive strategy

► Analyze political risk, including country risk, sub-state risk, industry or sector risk, and project risk

→ Conduct due diligence in ‘stealth mode’ so that our client’s identity and intentions remain unknown

3. Monitoring

Market-related diligence does not end when the deal is closed, therefore we provide ongoing support

► Keep our client abreast of the most relevant developments that impact the investment

• Country & regional industry developments and trends
• Entry and exit of competitors, and their strategy
• Monitor key customers, suppliers and partners to minimize ‘surprises’
• Monitor political developments at the country and sub-state level that may impact the investment

→ Provide useful business intelligence for timing follow-on investments or exits

4. Exit Strategy

Emerging Asia enables clients to make informed decisions and accurate investment valuation

► Analyze country, regional and global markets to identify likely strategic buyers

► Analyze the strategy of short-listed buyers to understand what they may be willing to pay, and why

► Obtain and ‘scrub’ hard to find comparable data for country or regional companies so client can calculate accurate valuation

→ Tactical inputs that enable client to maximize exit profits