Japan’s private equity market sparks back to life

Domestic and international investor interest has reignited in Japan’s private equity market, with almost all funds that survived the post-crisis lull understood to be seeking to raise fresh capital. The shock of Lehman Brothers’ collapse in September 2008, followed by the ruinous earthquake of March 2011 and the eurozone sovereign crisis hit the industry hard in Japan, with the prospect of raising capital almost non-existent. However, through the latter stages of 2012 and this y…