Who's Moving Where In Wealth Management? - Raffles Family Office, IQ-EQ

Editorial Staff

2 April 2020

Raffles Family Office
, aka KKR, has appointed Hidekazu Harada as a managing director on its private equity team based in Tokyo, with immediate effect.

Harada brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to KKR. He has joined from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he worked for 16 years, most recently as a board member and co-head of Japan investment banking, the private equity titan said in a statement yesterday.

At Bank of America Merrill Lynch Harada was primarily responsible for financial sponsors, TMT, mergers and acquisitions, management buyouts, and leveraged finance. Prior to his time at the bank, he spent four years at Daiwa Securities SMBC’s Tokyo and London offices where he focused on M&A. Earlier in his career, he worked on transaction services at ChuoAoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers (now PwC Japan Group).

The firm said that Harada’s appointment adds to a number of senior team hires. KKR established an office in Japan in 2006. Since that date it has invested or committed more than $2.2 billion of equity into companies.

IQ-EQ
, the investor services provider which rebranded from its SGG name last year, has appointed Sukanya Lal to join its Singapore team as business development director. In this role, Lal’s primary focus will be developing the group’s network and business opportunities in India.

Lal has worked in the financial sector for almost 19 years. Before this, she served in senior business development roles spanning Mumbai and Delhi. Most recently, she was associate director of business development, marketing and sales for a global provider of cloud-based fund services, technology and mobility-enabled infrastructure for fund managers. In this role, she set up an India service desk and led business development for India-focused private equity, hedge funds and family offices.

Among other appointments recently, the firm appointed Peter Golovsky to the newly-minted role of managing director, head of private wealth in Asia. Golovsky is based in Hong Kong.