After the decade-long success of the flagship Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore, DealStreetAsia is coming to Hong Kong with its inaugural Asia Private Equity Leadership Summit on May 20, 2026.
The Hong Kong launch builds on the success of the Asia PE-VC Summit in Singapore, which has become one of the region’s largest independent private capital gatherings.
In its first edition, the Hong Kong summit will feature 45+ speakers representing major global and Asian private equity fund managers, limited partner firms and asset managers.
The speaker line-up includes senior leaders from LGT Capital Partners, Neuberger, Pantheon Ventures, PAG, Ardian, HarbourVest, StepStone, KKR, Carlyle, Partners Group, CDIB Capital International, TPG, Bain Capital and others.
This is a focused, editorially led summit designed for private capital leaders to track the next phase of capital allocation and deployment across Greater China, North Asia, India, and the Middle East.
The debut edition of the Asia Private Equity Leadership Summit features a comprehensive exploration of diverse Asian markets, asset classes, and allocation and deployment strategies.
The 11 curated summit sessions will provide practical insights into how LPs are structuring their Asia exposure; explore strategies for unlocking liquidity; deep dive into investment approaches for Greater China; examine the Gulf-Asia corridor, India, and developed Asia; highlight the rise of private credit and private wealth; and offer a detailed look at the venture capital funding stack.
Take a look at the full agenda and all our speakers and consider joining us in Hong Kong on May 20, 2026.
Summit schedule
Main Ballroom
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Registration & Networking Coffee
9:00 am – 9:15 am
Welcome Address by Joji Thomas Philip, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia
9:15 am – 10:10 am
The new calculus of Asia private equity: Conviction, liquidity and realised returns
- Doug Coulter, Partner, Co-Head of Private Equity, Asia-Pacific, LGT Capital Partners
- Brian Lim, Partner & Head of Asia and Emerging Markets Investment Teams, Pantheon Ventures
- Elaine Chen, Partner, Private Equity, PAG
- Jason Yao, Deputy Co-head of Asia and Senior Managing Director, Ardian
- Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Asia’s private equity market is undergoing a strategic reset, with investors increasingly prioritising conviction, liquidity and realised returns. Capital allocation is becoming more selective, favouring managers and assets that demonstrate clear operational value creation and credible exit pathways, while tools such as secondaries, continuation vehicles, private credit and private wealth are playing a larger role in managing longer holding periods and supporting distributions.
Against this backdrop, the panel will explore what could help revive fundraising in a tough market, how GPs are navigating slower exit environments, and whether LPs are backing fewer managers while placing greater emphasis on fund size, pacing and overall portfolio management.
10:10 am – 10:40 am
10:40 am – 11:30 am
The new liquidity playbook: Secondaries, portfolio sales and continuation deals
- Martin Liew, Managing Director, Private Equity, Asia-Pacific, Partners Group
- Jonathan Lau, Director, OMO Capital Limited
- Karen Tse, Investment Principal, Coller Capital
- Frederic Azemard, Managing Partner, TR Capital
- Ben Hart, Senior Managing Director, Head of APAC, Evercore
- Pimfha Chan, Senior Correspondent, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
As private markets across Asia mature and fundraising cycles lengthen, secondary transactions are becoming an increasingly important liquidity tool for both LPs and GPs. This panel will explore the evolving “liquidity playbook” in the region, including traditional secondaries, large-scale portfolio sales, and the growing use of continuation vehicles as fund managers seek to extend holding periods while returning capital to investors.
Panellists will discuss how tighter exit conditions, DPI pressure, and shifting return expectations are reshaping deal structures and pricing dynamics. The session will also examine where Asia sits in the global secondaries ecosystem, how buyer appetite is evolving across strategies, and whether continuation funds are becoming a permanent feature rather than a cyclical tool.
11:35 am – 12:25 pm
China private equity is back, but the bar is much higher
- Jacqueline Zhang, Partner, HOPU Investments
- Alex Ying, Managing Director, Head of Direct PE Investments, CDIB Capital International
- Gary Chan, Managing Director and Head of Private Equity, Sun Hung Kai & Co.
- Kent Chen, Managing Director, Head of Asia Private Equity, Neuberger Berman
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor (Greater China), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
After a turbulent few years, China’s PE market is showing clear signs of revival. Fundraising volumes, dealmaking, and exit activity all posted year-on-year gains in 2025, signalling a meaningful restoration of market confidence. But this is not a return to the easy-money era. Look beneath the headline numbers and it becomes clear that the funding sources, investment logic, and exit routes underpinning this growth bear little resemblance to those of just a few years ago.
How do sophisticated investors and asset managers navigate this new PE terrain? What are some of the most important capabilities a PE firm must build to survive the next cycle – operational value creation, government relations, or cross-border M&A expertise?
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
The LP View: What it takes to build an Asia private markets portfolio today
- Amanda Chen, Principal, Primary Investments, HarbourVest
- Randy Wang, Partner, Private Equity, StepStone Group
- Pamela Fung, Managing Director, Private Equity Solutions, Morgan Stanley Investment Management
- Jonathan Goh, Principal, Primary Investments, Adams Street Partners
- Kavitha Nair, Deputy Editor (Private Equity), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
LP approaches to building Asia private markets portfolios are evolving, as investors reconsider how to allocate across strategies, geographies and investment routes, while balancing diversification with the need to build deeper manager relationships. Portfolio construction is being influenced by structural shifts in capital flows, including the regionalisation of supply chains, increasing market fragmentation and the growing importance of geopolitical factors, raising the question of whether traditional approaches such as vintage diversification remain sufficient.
The discussion will focus on how LPs are defining resilience within their portfolios, making allocation decisions across markets, and selecting managers in this changing environment, and how these choices shape portfolio construction over the longer term.
2:20 pm – 3:05 pm
How wealth is reshaping private markets in Asia
- Brad McCarthy, Managing Director, Head of Asia-Pacific, Carlyle Global Wealth
- Sharon Chow, Director and Head of North Asia, Global Wealth Solutions, KKR
- Mark Hindriks, Managing Director, Investments, Azalea Investment Management
- Johann Santer, Senior Managing Director, Head of Private Wealth APAC, Blue Owl
- Samantha Lin, Principal, Asia Private Wealth, TPG
- Ngoc Nguyen, Deputy Editor (Vietnam), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Asian family offices and HNWIs are increasingly looking for diversification, and global asset managers are responding to that demand. Yet, recent redemption pressures in semi-liquid funds have tested investor confidence even as managers continue to build understanding of these structures. This panel brings together experienced GPs who have launched and managed such products across global markets. Drawing on that cross-border perspective, they will unpack liquidity trade-offs, pricing dynamics, and the evolving role of wealth in shaping Asia’s private markets ecosystem.
3:10 pm – 3:55 pm
How private credit is shaping up in Asia
- Michael Hui, Partner, Special Situations, Hong Kong, Bain Capital
- Diane Raposio, Partner and Head of Asia Credit & Markets, KKR
- Chris Wyke, Joint Chief Executive Officer, MA Financial Group
- Jacky Tian, Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager, Flow Capital Partners
- Sharad Bajpai, Partner & Asia Chief Operating Officer, Ares Credit Group
- Michelle Teo, Managing Editor, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
The private credit market in Asia Pacific is projected to be a nearly $100 billion AUM market in the next year or so, underpinned by structural growth even as global credit markets come under strain.
Though the asset class remains nascent, growing investor demand as well as deployment opportunities across the region are shaping new developments in the space.
What are the fundamentals that characterise the region’s private credit market? From direct lending to distressed debt and special situations, how are global asset managers building out their strategies in Asia? How is the opportunity set expanding for investors?
3:55 pm – 4.30 pm
4:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Reinventing the Asian VC Model: From Growth at All Costs to Capital Discipline
- Piyush Gupta, Founder & Managing Partner, Kenro Capital
- Ming Eng, Managing Partner, Granite Asia
- Conrad Tsang, Founder and Chairman, Strategic Year Holdings Limited
- Jireh Li, Partner, INCE Capital
- Andi Haswidi, Head of Data Research, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Asia’s venture capital industry is facing its toughest market in more than a decade. Fundraising has slowed sharply, exits remain elusive and pressure to return capital is intensifying. LPs are not waiting patiently for the cycle to turn. They are shifting toward managers that can offer yield, liquidity and multiple strategies under one roof.
That is forcing a structural response. Across Asia, leading VC firms are expanding into growth equity, private credit, structured capital and secondaries, not simply to diversify, but to stay relevant. The multi-asset platform is emerging not as an ambition, but as a necessity.
This panel will ask whether that shift is cyclical or permanent. Are firms adapting to survive a difficult market, or is Asian venture capital being fundamentally reinvented?
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm
From lab to real-world solutions: Underwriting China’s AI & Deep Tech Future
- Philip Hu, Founding Member & Managing Director, Primavera Capital
- Andy Yin, General Manager, Global Private Markets, Olive Asset Management
- Dr. Paul Wang, Director, HKU Techno-Entrepreneurship Core (TEC)
- Alice Zhu, Director, Empyrean Sky Partners
- Rafael Ratzel, Managing Partner, T-Capital (华控基金)
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor (Greater China), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
After the “DeepSeek moment,” a string of blockbuster Chinese tech listings in recent months have sustained the global re-rating of China-born AI & deeptech champions across both public and private markets.
As record-level dry powder flows into these strategic sectors – from AI and semiconductor to brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing – some critical questions emerge: How can cutting-edge university research be effectively commercialised into these key areas of focus? How can private capital underwrite and scale innovations without being caught in valuation bubbles? And what new models help de-risk early-stage deeptech bets for private investors and growth capital?
6:00 pm
20 May 2026
Parallel Ballroom
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm
Why developed Asia is setting the pace for private capital
- Paul DiGiacomo, Managing Partner, BDA
- Jerry Lam, Executive Director, Peterson Group (Wyndham Capital)
- Tetsuya Tabata, Head of Private Equity / Infrastructure, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust (Hong Kong)
- Joji Thomas Philip, Editor-in-Chief, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Developed Asia is becoming a more important part of the private capital discussion at a time when investors are rethinking risk, liquidity, sector exposure and regional portfolio construction. While growth markets remain central to Asia’s long-term opportunity, developed Asian markets offer a different set of attractions, including more mature businesses, deeper exit pathways, buyout opportunities, corporate divestitures, infrastructure platforms, and, in some markets, demographic and succession-driven investment themes. This panel will explore how developed Asia fits into LP portfolios, how regional and global managers are deploying capital, and where these markets sit in the next phase of Asia private capital.
2:20 pm – 3.05 pm
Asia-Gulf corridor: How are capital flows facilitating strategic developments?
- Cliff Chau, Managing Partner, ewpartners
- Cliff Zhang, Chairman and CEO, Templewater
- Soumaya Ben Beya Dridje, Partner, Rasmal Ventures
- Eudora Wang, Deputy Editor, Greater China, DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
Bilateral relations between the Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Asia are expanding from traditional energy-focused links into comprehensive strategic partnerships spanning technology, energy transition and sustainable development, and financial integration.
Where are the opportunities for investors in the mid to longer term? How are the developments reshaping dynamics in the broader region?
3:10 pm – 3:55 pm
India private equity is no longer just a growth story
- Abhishek Sharman, Founder & Managing Director, Carpediem Capital
- Michael Liu, Managing Director (Asian Investment team), Future Standard
- Nilesh Shrivastava, Partner, Strategic Opportunities Fund, National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
- Tarun Sharma, Senior fund manager & Strategy head, Healthcare and Consumer, 360 ONE Asset
- Gaurav Ahuja, Senior Partner, ChrysCapital
- Kavitha Nair, Deputy Editor (Private Equity), DealStreetAsia [Moderator]
India’s private markets are moving beyond a purely growth-led narrative, with increasing participation from both global and domestic investors, a broader set of mid-market opportunities and a wider range of investment structures. As capital deployment continues, there is a stronger emphasis on exits and realisations, supported by a more developed IPO market and ongoing M&A activity, while GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles are becoming more prominent in shaping transaction routes.
The discussion will consider how LPs and GPs are approaching valuations, deployment and exits in this evolving landscape, and whether improving liquidity conditions are influencing expectations.
