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The challenge of due diligence in China

Yong Kwek Ping • TED@BCG Singapore

Assessing a potential investment in a Chinese company poses a unique set of challenges, including lack of reliable financials and often opaque ideas of the structure and relationships that drive a business. Yong Kwek Ping walks through typical transactions and offers advice on the what to look for before greenlighting a new deal.

Assessing a potential investment in a Chinese company poses a unique set of challenges, including lack of reliable financials and often opaque ideas of the structure and relationships that drive a business. Yong Kwek Ping walks through typical transactions and offers advice on the what to look for before greenlighting a new deal.

About the speaker

Yong Kwek Ping

Yong Kwek Ping

Due diligence thought leader

Kwek Ping Yong has more than ten years of private equity investment experience in China. He started his first China-focused growth fund in 2001 and has since made more than thirty investments in different Chinese cities. Yong is the author of the first industry focused book on “Private Equity in China: Challenges and Opportunities” published in 2012.

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