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Getting nowhere: private equity in China By Jonathan Zhou, Fangda Partners, Shanghai, China

Private equity trends and developments By Al Donald, Kon Mellos and Nick Wormald of Freehills in Sydney and Melbourne

Australia reforms venture capital laws By Andrew Green, chief executive of the Australian Venture Capital Association Limited

By Asia Private Equity Review

By Jari Vikiö and Paulus Hidén, Attorneys at law Borenius & Kemppinen Ltd

The tax structuring of a management buyout By Marco de Lignie and Frédéric Feyten, Loyens & Loeff

The European private equity and venture capital industry By EVCA – The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

Vikiö's areas of specialization are venture capital, M&A arrangements and restructuring, capital markets as well as various financing instruments. Vikiö has acted as an adviser in numerous Finnish and international M&A and financing arrangements and has represented both companies and providers of finance. He has wide experience in dealing in various M&A and MBO/MBI arrangements and the construction and implementation of mergers. In the venture capital field, he has acted as a representative of investors in a number of extensive operations involving the establishment of venture capital funds and in transactions connected with investments in portfolio companies.

The mega deal drought that lasted more than half-a-year was finally broken by the third quarter of 2002. The last private equity transaction that exceeded $100 million took place back in March when US-based Farallon Capital invested $520 million into Indonesia's Bank of Central Asia. By the two months ending mid-September, however, three transactions were, or were in the process of being, completed. Their combined transaction total would command an amount in the vicinity of $620 million (figure 1). All three transactions were undertaken by the Asian arms of global private equity houses. At a time when the Asian private equity industry is facing its most extensive consolidation to-date, the active participation of these non-indigenous Asian firms is not only a pledge of faith in the regional market, but also an affirmation of their central position in driving forward private equity outside of Japan.

After graduating in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney in 1977, Andrew worked in resource and industrial project development, and focused on identifying opportunities for adding value in the Australian resource sector.