August 31, 2018

Asia’s population, wealth, GDP, and food/protein consumption growth continue. While Intra-Asian/ASEAN agri-food-agtech deals are well understood, Asian investor allocations into the Americas & Europe are often under the radar. I expect this to change rapidly, and for many more Asian industry and financial investors to allocate significant sums outside of Asia via funds, M&A, and greenfield options.

Companies and asset managers raising capital regularly ask me for introductions to potential investors. For those of you in this position, you can mix and mingle with more investors then you can possibly imagine at Global AgInvesting’s October 2-3 conference in Tokyo, Japan, representing dozens of large, medium, and small scale private and institutional investors. These LP’s have asked me about farmland and protein production offerings, upstream and mid-stream agri/food companies, agtechnology plays, and infrastructure situations in North/South America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. Importantly, they are open to both fund/LP and direct investing situations; be sure to bring plenty of business cards!

Let me know if you’d like to join us at Global AgInvesting’s Tokyo conference in October? For details, go to www.gai-asia.com.

Greg Mellinger is Founder & CEO of HighQuest Group.