Private equity firms highlight SE Asia challenges

Asian powerhouses such as China and India may attract far more capital from private equity investors than the likes of Thailand and Vietnam, but some firms are quietly making hay in Southeast Asia. Such investing is not without its difficulties, however, as was noted by a panel of PE specialists from four different Southeast Asian countries at the Asia Private Equity Forum in Hong Kong last week. As a grouping of relatively small countries, Southeast Asia is a highly complex and ineff…