| Type | Limited partnership |
|---|---|
| Industry | Private equity |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder(s) | Douglas W. Clayton |
| Headquarters | Cayman Islands (Registered) Hong Kong (Administration) Phnom Penh, Cambodia Colombo, Sri Lanka Vientiane, Laos Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Key people | Kenneth Stevens, Scott Lewis, Nirosh De Silva |
| Products | Private equity funds, Growth capital, Venture capital |
| Employees | 15 |
| Website | www.leopardcapital.com |
Leopard Capital LP is Cambodia's first private equity fund, founded by Douglas Clayton in 2007.[1] To begin, the Leopard raised approximately $34 million during the September 2008-July 2009 credit crunch, and now manages investment funds and provides venture/expansion capital to businesses operating in frontier markets across the ASEAN region. Leopard Capital engages segment leaders concentrating on fundamental industries like financial services, utilities, agriculture, infrastructure, real-estate and tourism, as well as micro-financing initiatives.[2]
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Before establishing Kerry Securities Thailand in 1989, since 1986 Clayton had worked with Sun Hung Kai's institutional securities division in Hong-Kong. From 1994, Clayton headed CLSA Thailand (a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole), leading his team to position 1 in the 1997 Asiamoney Brokers Poll.[3]
As CEO, Clayton then shifted to managing CLSA's Latin America brokerage, heading offices in New York, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Venezuela, before returning to Thailand in 2001 - participating in recapitalization processes for distressed companies following the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In this capacity Clayton founded Abacus Equity Partners, acted as CIO for Knight Asia Group, and headed the Singapore and Malaysian offices of Indosuez WI Carr Securities, a subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank Division.
Clayton subsequently established Leopard Capital in 2007, recruiting Dr. Marc Faber (publisher of the renowned Gloom, Boom & Doom reports),[1], Jim Rogers, Dr. Gordian Gaeta,[4] Heinrich Looser, retired US Senator Larry Pressler and Dr. Jim Walker as directors/advisers.
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