Private Equity Survey Report - Asia And Middle East 2021

While 2020 was a year of challenges and contradictions in the Asian private equity ("PE") market, it was predicted that 2021 would be a year of improvement. With China being "the first country to lock down and the first to recover", and other regional jurisdictions looking towards the imminent availability of Covid-19 vaccines, at the close of 2020, Walkers Asia Private Equity Survey Report 2020 ("2020 Report") found over 80% of respondents in the region were generally optimistic about the year ahead .

So was the optimism justified? What has changed? And where is the industry now?

For the second year running, Walkers reached out to the PE funds industry in Asia and asked our clients, colleagues at service providers and other related market contacts to share their insights through a short survey.