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Hiro Mizuno Partner Coller Capital www.collercapital.com |
Hiro Mizuno is a Partner and a member of the Investment Committee and the Executive Committee of Coller Capital, mainly covering Asia and Silicon Valley. Previously, he worked as a Manager of Private Equity Investments and Japanese Corporate Finance in New York and as a Vice President of the International Credit Department, Tokyo, with Sumitomo Trust. He holds a Bachelor of Law from Osaka City University, Japan, and an M.B.A from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
London-based Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is the leading global investor in private equity secondaries. Coller Capital's latest fund, at $2.6 billion, is the largest ever global secondaries fund. Coller Capital's name is synonymous with the development of the secondaries marketplace. In 1994, the firm launched Europe's first secondaries fund, and in 1998 the first global secondaries fund.
In 1998, Coller Capital made the largest secondaries purchase of the time: Shell Pension Trust's $265 million private equity portfolio. Two years later, the firm repeated the feat with the $1 billion purchase of National Westminster Bank's private equity portfolio from NatWest's acquirer, the Royal Bank of Scotland.
In December 2001, the firm made the first significant purchase of a US corporate venture portfolio, acquiring 27 technology companies from Lucent, and in 2003 bought a majority stake in another technology portfolio from British Telecom's corporate incubator, Brightstar.
In February 2003, Coller Capital participated in the acquisition of Deutsche Bank's €1.5 billion private equity portfolio - once again the largest ever secondaries transaction, and in December 2003 agreed to buy Abbey National's $1.33 billion portfolio - the largest secondaries purchase by a single buyer. After 3i, Coller Capital is the second largest owner, by number, of UK companies.