Carlyle Sets Sights on 300 Japanese Businesses as PE Deals Boom

  • Next 5-10 years will be ‘really busy,’ local co-head says
  • Looking at carveouts, succession after raising ¥430 billion
WATCH: Kazuhiro Yamada of Carlyle Japan discusses his outlook for the private equity landscape in Japan and why this is now a ‘golden era’ for the sector.Source: Bloomberg
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Carlyle Group Inc. is studying around 300 Japanese businesses as part of its pipeline, a sign of the continuing boom in private equity deals in the country.

“We look at a lot of deals every day,” Kazuhiro Yamada, co-head of the Japan buyout advisory team, said in an interview. “Even though competition is increasing, if you look at the number of potential deals, there are actually not enough general partners to do them,” he said, referring to private equity firms and their executives.