Pierce Group Asia

We partner with companies that are seeking to use our expertise to grow across borders. Over the past 18 years we have used our corporate development skills to grow numerous businesses and partnerships from our base in South East Asia. We put our money behind your products and services and have used our capital to finance and invest in numerous public and private companies, both big and small.

We follow a variety of corporate development strategies to assist companies to enter into new markets and deploy investment strategies in pursuit of superior investment results over the long term. A significant portion of the capital we deploy is our own, but we remain guided by the fiduciary principles of doing what’s right for our outside and partner investors. We work hard to avoid fads and fashion when looking for partnership and investment opportunities, sticking to things we understand while working with people we respect and trust. We have been involved in cross border partnerships, distribution, and M&A for a long time and have successfully managed through the challenges of Bull and Bear markets alike. Most of our group employees have been with us for many years, a testament to our collegial and collaborative working environment.

Our investment strategies include late stage venture capital, public equities, private debt, private equity and distressed investments.

As we are a privately held group and are not in the practice of raising external funds, we do not seek publicity for our activities and we tend not to publicly publish details of on our investment holdings. We strongly believe company promotion efforts are best focused on our partnership and investee entities and operations and the hard working entrepreneurs and management teams that run these fine businesses.

Our Guiding Principles

We are all about value and love to drive a dollar further than anyone else. We build conviction by having a firm understanding of a company’s ‘reason to exist.’ We are attracted to companies with defensible, proven business models, enduring free cash flow, motivated management teams and deep customer relationships.

Pierce is an unusual investment firm in that our key executives and their families have contributed a significant portion of our capital that we deploy and it represents a meaningful portion of their net worth. With our interests well aligned with other outside investors’, we are concerned with both the financial success of our investments and with the ethical and moral standards of high integrity and good governance.

We have always believed that an operational focus is critical to creating sustainable value in businesses. Pierce enjoys a network of industrial and financial partners, many of whom we have done business with for years. We routinely rely on operating executives of current or former portfolio businesses as well as investors and fund managers to develop proprietary insights into our partnership and investment opportunities. Through many years of experience building businesses and our ability to draw on the talents and knowledge of our operating executives, we are able to help companies enhance their core advantages and transcend their historical limitations.

We believe strongly in the benefits of partnership. We often deploy our capital alongside other like-minded investors, believing in the wisdom of multiple perspectives and the resiliency derived from additional human and capital resources.

Our Equity Group

Our equity group has a broad and flexible investment mandate which allows us to pursue attractive opportunities as a sponsor, co-investor or limited partner wherever we find them. We invest in both control and non-control situations, and are very comfortable participating alongside other investors. We hold investments in a wide variety of industries around the globe, in companies that can range in enterprise value from micro-cap to in excess of $1 billion.

Wherever we invest, whatever the industry or amount of our investment, our core philosophy is always the same: find companies with identifiable barriers to competition, partner with talented managers operating under the right incentives, forge long-term relationships built on accountability, trust, transparency and collaboration, and together we will create value.