 BDA China Logo | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business |
| Genre | Inward Investment Firm |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
Key people |
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| Products | Business services |
| Website | www |
BDA China Limited (BDA) is a business advising firm based in Beijing, China.[1]
History
Founded in 1994, BDA serves financial institutions, mostly private equity firms and hedge funds, and multinational corporations. BDA advises on investments principally in China, as well as South East Asia, Japan and South Korea.[2]
The company's sector focus is principally China's digital markets and consumer goods and services. Other sectors include advanced manufacturing, healthcare, education & training.
After serving exclusively Morgan Stanley and its clients from 1994 to 1995, BDA built its own stable of clients including telecom, media and technology companies seeking to benefit from the rapid growth in China.[3]
In 1999, BDA co-published a report entitled “The Internet in China”. The publication coincided with a surge in venture capital investment in the country's budding internet sector culminating in the IPOs on Nasdaq in 2000 of Chinese Internet portals Sina, Netease and Sohu. BDA founder Duncan Clark co-authored a chapter in the textbook Chinese Cyberspace: Technological changes and political effects based on the findings from this report.[4][5]
In 2003 China's three listed Internet portals started to see a reversal of fortunes from revenues generated by mobile text messaging partnerships with Chinese telecom operators, including China Mobile. BDA research highlighted the resurgence of these companies, winning it new mandates from institutional investors including hedge funds. A new wave of private equity activity followed with the emergence of a ’second wave’ of Internet companies such as Ctrip, Baidu and Shanda, that listed successfully in the US in 2003 and 2004.[4]
By 2004, BDA diversified its investments and business consulting practices beyond the telecommunications and internet sectors to include e-commerce and a wide range of consumer goods and services.
BDA was also an angel investor in website software start-up Exoweb limited, which subsequently spun off the mobile games company Happylatte and mobile metrics company App Annie.[6]
Leadership
Duncan Clark, BDA's founder and chairman, is a technology and financial expert specializing in Chinese markets. Clark's book on Alibaba, Alibaba – The House That Jack Ma Built, was published by HarperCollins in 2016 [7] and was named as a finalist for the 2016 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.[8]
He is often quoted by The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Economist, and other media outlets.[9]
Clark served a senior advisor to the ‘China 2.0’ initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. At Stanford, Clark studies the effect Silicon Valley will have on China's various technology industries.[6] When he served as a visiting scholar from 2010 to 2011, he facilitated seminars on the creation of the venture capital community and the role of internet companies in China.[10]
Duncan is also executive producer of two China-themed documentary films produced by a production company CIB Productions that he co-founded in Beijing in 2008.[10]
Duncan Clark has served on the advisory board of Chinese Internet company Netease and serves on the advisory board of the Digital Communication Fund of Geneva-based bank The Pictet Group.[11]
A former elected chairman of the China–Britain Business Council, Clark was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Order of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year Honours List for services to British commercial interests in China.[12]
Wilbur Zou, BDA's managing partner, is responsible for the company's business operation and development.[13]
Ted Dean served as partner at BDA from 1999 to 2013 when he joined the United States Department of Commerce as deputy assistant secretary for services in the International Trade Administration.[14]
References
- ↑ Gough, Neil (2014-02-09). "China's Tencent to Buy Stake in JD.com as Part of E-Commerce Push". The New York Times. Hong Kong. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
- ↑ Clover, Charles (2014-03-19). "Chinese internet: Mobile wars". Financial Times. Beijing. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
- ↑ Chan, Yvonne (1999-06-30). "Unicom chooses key IPO partner". South China Morning Post. Beijing. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
- 1 2 Clark, Duncan (2001-01-22). "The Internet in China: Problems and Prospects". Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Retrieved 2004-03-24.
- ↑ "The Internet in China, BDA China Limited and The Strategis Group, Inc". SiliconInvestor.com. PRNewswire.com. 1999. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
- 1 2 "Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, People: Duncan Clark". Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ "Search: 0 results found for ""9780062413406""".
- ↑ Hill, Andrew (7 August 2016). "Business Book of the Year award 2016: Longlist announced". Financial Times.
- ↑ "China File: Duncan Clark". ChinaFile. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- 1 2 "Life after Google? The Way Forward for US Internet Firms and Investors in China". Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ "The Wall Street Journal: Unleashing Innovation, An Executive Conference". Wall Street Journal Asia. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ "New Year's Honours List 2013 – departmental list" (PDF). Gov.uk. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ "The American Chamber of Commerce Presents the 1st Annual SME Conference". Dr. Charlie – MySinaBlog.Com. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ↑ "Ted Dean". United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Archived from the original on 2014-04-02. Retrieved 9 April 2014.