Families' corporate finance needs growing

First-generation rich Asians are increasingly looking to realise the value of family businesses via  such as public listings or reverse takeovers. And family offices are responding by building up their corporate finance capabilities. “The whole thing right now in Asia is monetisation,” says Michael Tan, managing director at Singapore-based multi-family office CS Partners*. “You might have a patriarch who says ‘my son has been running a new business for six years and he is looking …