Experience & Track Record

TCG’s team is comprised of professionals with many years of successful financial, operational, consulting and investment experience.  Over the past eighteen years, we have completed several high-profile transactions and helped build some of the largest and best known companies in their respective industries. 

Among our history of successful cross-border M&A deals, in 2011 we won the Asia-Pacific M&A Atlas Award for Middle Market Deal of the Year.  This was awarded based on our work as a special advisor to Beijing-based Pacific Century Motors in its acquisition of Nexteer Automotive, a steering systems subsidiary of General Motors with over $2 billion in revenues, which, at a transaction value of approximately $450 million, was hailed as a “landmark deal of the era” by the Wall Street Journal.  Other highly successful transactions include the recapitalization of Trio Group by Navis Capital and the acquisition of Delphi’s braking and suspension business by Beijing West Industries.  The Nexteer and Delphi deals we helped closed were the largest such transactions involving Chinese buyers at their respective time periods.  

TCG’s Founder & CEO, Jack Z. Chen, participated in the investment in Anhui Conch Cement Company Ltd. and helped build the company into a dominant player in Asia through mergers and acquisitions and organic growth as a board member and the company’s Chief Operating Officer.  Conch Cement is now one of the leading cement companies in the world with a nearly $20 billion market capitalization as of February 2012.

As strategic advisors and principal owners, we have taken many foreign companies into the Chinese market.  One successful case is Irvine, CA-based CTC Cable, for whom TCG established the company’s first manufacturing and distribution partnership in China and served as the company’s on-the-ground China team.  Within just three years, our efforts contributed 75% of the company’s total worldwide cable revenues.  Most recently, TCG invested in Magceutics Inc., and helped develop channel partnerships and independent brands for distribution of Magtein™ as a dietary supplement in the U.S.  As a 50% partner, we also recently formed Ikonic Entertainment Group, which aims to bring the very best in theme park design and show production from Hollywood to destinations across China. 

Our successes in each of these areas have been reported by major media such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, CCTV and Channel 4 in the UK.