our team

Marc Hua

Partner

  • 12 years of experience in fundamental investments with stints in hedge fund and private equity across the APAC region
  • Investment professional with ApaH Capital, a blackstone-backed cross-asset hedge fund
  • Previously spent 6 years with Lone Star Funds, a global private equity firm with stellar track record (lifetime IRR of 28%) both in PE and real estate investments
  • Prior to that, Marc was involved in technology investment banking and M&A with Barclays and Standard Chartered
  • Graduated first class both in MSc Financial Engineering from Imperial College London and BEng.Hons Chemical Engineering from National University of Singapore

Donghan Kim

Partner

  • 8 years of experience in fundamental investments mainly in hedge funds specialized in Japan
  • Investment professional specialized in Japan with ApaH Capital, a blackstone-backed cross-asset hedge fund
  • Previously managed Japan L/S book with Bridge Capital Asset Management and Yamawa Securities specialized in Japan consumer and tech sectors for 3.5 years
  • Prior to that Donghan was an tech/industrial specialized institutional sales with Mizuho Securities covering mainly HFs for 1.5 years
  • Graduated from Sophia University majored in Economics and Finance. Lived in Japan since 2008 in Fukuoka, Okinawa and Tokyo

Motoomi Kodaira

Partner

  • 26 years of experience in real estate investment and finance across Japan and Europe
  • Moto has been engaged in special situation real estates and infrastructure investments as well as M&A projects with institutional investors and listed companies across Japan and Europe in the past 20 years
  • During this period, Moto personally established/acquired and managed financial institutions with licenses such as “Type 1 Financial Instrument Business (第一種金融商品取引業)” and “Investment Advisory and Agency Business (投資助言代理業)” multiple times in Japan and Europe and exited out of them later on
  • Prior to that, Moto was a top performing investment professional at Raysum (a listed Real Estate Investment firm in Japan) where he managed assets of renowned family offices and wealthy individuals for 6 years. He was the first person in Japan to be involved in an investment financed with a non-recourse loan