
Asian outlier: Standard Chartered and secondaries direct

Over the past three years, Standard Chartered has completed Asia’s largest secondary direct deal and put its PE unit in a position to raise fresh capital. But it is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come
Through five transactions with an aggregate asset value of around $2.4 billion, Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE) has used the secondary market to secure its future. "We think about this as a transition...
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