{"id":4229,"date":"2006-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"private-equity-battles-with-hedge-funds-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2006\/private-equity-battles-with-hedge-funds-in-japan.html","title":{"rendered":"Private equity battles with hedge funds in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  TOKYO\/HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Private equity firms struggling to find reasonably priced assets in Japan are increasingly settling for smaller stakes in companies &#8212; pitting them against souped-up  hedge funds in competition for deals.<\/p>\n<p>  While buyout funds are usually loath to invest without management control, some have been willing to compromise to buy assets at a discount to market prices. That could upset investors who  allocated capital to the funds for high-risk, high-return private deals.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;This space is getting crowded with &#8216;non-traditional&#8217; private equity investors and also hedge funds who can&#8217;t really compete in the buyout market,&#8221; said Daniel Hounslow, a lawyer at Clifford Chance  in Tokyo who works on private equity M&amp;A deals.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&amp;storyID=2006-04-03T113503Z_01_T145088_RTRUKOC_0_US-FINANCE-FUND-JAPAN.xml\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\/HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Private equity firms struggling to find reasonably priced assets in Japan are increasingly settling for smaller stakes in companies &#8212; pitting them against souped-up hedge funds in competition for deals. While buyout funds are usually loath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}