PAG focuses its investment activities along three core strategies, private equity, real estate and absolute return, while maintaining the flexibility of a multi-strategy, cross-firm approach to investment opportunities.
PAG Asia Capital
PAG’s private equity business, PAG Asia Capital or PAGAC, focuses on large-scale buyouts, control deals, and structured minority investments. Our team seeks to make investments in companies with proven track records, unique business models or strong market positions with experienced, open-minded management teams.
Our investment teams are supported by a highly experienced, dedicated operations team and together they work with companies to support management, streamline and improve business processes and operations, strengthen corporate governance and expand market share and improve performance.
The PAGAC team has a strong track record of landmark transactions across Asia. We are problem solvers with the flexibility to structure deals tailored to each situation. Our thematic approach to investments across different sectors ensures that decisions are supported with deep industry experience and insights.
Weijian Shan
Group Chairman & CEO, Managing Partner, PAGAC
PAG’s private equity strategy is led by PAG Group Chairman and CEO, Weijian Shan.
Jon-Paul Toppino
Group President, PAG and Managing Partner, PAG Real Estate
J-P Toppino is the Group President of PAG and the Managing Partner of PAG Real Estate.
PAG Real Estate
PAG’s real estate strategy manages a series of real estate opportunity and core plus funds investing in properties in Japan, China and throughout Asia-Pacific.
PAG Real Estate started operations in 1997 as Secured Capital and continues to be one of Asia’s longest standing and leading real estate investment and asset management platforms. The group has a proven track record across multiple investment strategies ranging from investing in real estate non performing loans to acquiring direct real estate.
With a team of over 140 professionals, PAG Real Estate boasts a diversified capability across sectors, asset classes and geographies. Our network includes on-the-ground expertise in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Sydney, with contacts and relationships that span the Asia Pacific region.
PAG Real Estate has invested over US$21 billion across over 6,500 properties across the region. We take a flexible approach to investing and will look at direct and indirect investment in opportunistic, value added and core plus real estate opportunities.
PAG Absolute Returns
PAG’s absolute return business focuses on building long term relationships with its partners by offering a flexible range of financing solutions to meet short and long term funding needs. PAG’s absolute return business currently manages in excess of US$5.5 billion and has invested over US$7 billion across the region over the past 10 years.
Current areas of focus include:
Chris Gradel
PAG Founder & CIO, Absolute Returns
PAG’s Absolute Returns business is led by Chris Gradel, who founded PAG in 2002.
