David Azcue
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Client SatisfactionSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s Asia private funds practice works on major fund formation and fund transaction mandates across the APAC region and in relation to a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, real estate, credit infrastructure, energy, and venture capital funds as well as alternative investment products. The team is noted particularly for its experience handling Japan-focused buyout fundraisings. With over thirty years of experience in Japan and expertise in Japan-focused fundraisings, David Azcue leads the group alongside Adam Furber and Michael Ceulen, both of whom offer varied Japan-focused and pan-Asia funds experience from their base in Hong Kong.
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‘A strong team to rely on for fund formation work. They have a plethora of experience helping out global mega funds which they can apply to smaller funds.'
‘The team is sharp in negotiation and delivers clients' preferred outcomes.'
Key clients
- Advantage Partners
- Affinity Equity Partners
- Alibaba Group
- Apax NoAnt Group Co.
- Aspirant Group
- Blackstone
- Brummer & Partners
- Carlyle
- CLSA Capital
- CVC
- D Capital
- Diamond Realty Management
- EmergeVest
- EQT
- Excelsior Capital Asia
- Hillhouse Capital
- JAFCO
- Japan Activation Capital
- Japan Growth Investment Alliance (J-GIA)
- Japan Post Investments
- J-STAR
- KKR
- Kyoto Pacific Capital
- Lexington Partners
- Mercuria Investment
- Morgan Stanley
- Newtown Investment Partners
- Nippon Investment Company
- Nissay Asset Management
- NSSK
- PAG
- Polaris Capital Group
Work highlights
- Represented J-STAR Co., Ltd. in connection with the the approximately ¥69bn (approximately US$456m) GP-led secondary transaction, through which four portfolio companies from three vintages were consolidated into a single acquisition vehicle and the Continuation Series Funds were formed to invest in this SPC (alongside the sponsor’s flagship fund and certain other legacy shareholders of the transferred portfolio companies).
- Acted for Advantage Partners, Inc. in connection with the formation of the AP VII Series Funds, a ¥130bn (approximately US$1bn) Japan-focused buyout fund series.
- Assisted Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko with the NSSK III Series Funds, which closed with aggregate capital commitments of approximately ¥105bn.
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David Azcue, Adam Furber, Michael Ceulen