PE firms in China chasing dreams

VC/PE industry is so hot currently that many investment institution start to join the war of keeping people’s tactics.
Growth Enterprise Market kicked off on last Friday, undoubtedly, some major venture capital and private equity firms who are holding plenty of share in the latest Chinese financial market are laughing loudly thanks to the performance in the first trading day. Other firms, even including those securities companies with the license of direct investment are also eager to throw into these businesses. Those socalled knowledgeable people or key person with “relation” and “sourcing” will play the noticeable role.
Foreign Fund
At this moment, the China equity market is surging. Blackstone once directly invested in some project in China in the past few years, but it seems it slow down recently. BX will follow a series of IPOs in NY market, which shows a strong sign BX is rapidly recovering from the financial crisis. In few weeks ago, Blackstone Group LP announced they were building a PE fund of 5 Billion RMB. Another giant, CLSA, is planning to raise a fund of 10Billion RMB with a Shanghai fund, according to its Asia CEO Mr. Jonathan Slone, CLSA will hold half of the company, focusing on environment and new energy industty. Before them, Carlyle Group and TPG dominate in China market.
Domestic PE investing
Zhejiang Capital, Jiangshu Capital, etc, local PE firms once chased their dream in the PE market with great enthusiasm, it was reported over 100 billion of capital in Wenzhou market. Nowadays, more and more entrepreneurs have to quit after failure.