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Profile: Kenta Shima, J-STAR

by Krystal Scanlon 8 September 2022

The Drawdown (TDD): You’ve been with J-STAR since 2015. Can you describe the evolution of the Japanese private equity market in that time?

Kenta Shima (KS): The Japanese private equity industry is relatively new and still far from a mature stage. The first generation of PE firms launched in the late 1990s. By comparison, J-STAR is considered a second generation firm because it was established in 2006.

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