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Asia Pacific

Scale, speed, and the consumer frontier.

GDA established its Southeast Asian presence through the acquisition of Omni3 in 2024, appointing a regional gaming lead and making Singapore the firm’s access point to the region. Coverage runs from Southeast Asia through Greater China and Korea.

Asia Pacific is where consumer technology reaches scale fastest and where digital asset markets institutionalized ahead of their western equivalents. Gaming and interactive media are the deepest concentration — not as a niche, but as the region’s dominant consumer technology category and one of GDA’s strongest sector positions.

What the market brings

Population and pace

Consumer products reach tens of millions here on timelines that would be implausible elsewhere. Distribution is the constraint, not demand.

Gaming and consumer depth

The largest interactive media market in the world, with studios, publishers, and platform economics that set global standards.

Markets that regulated early

Singapore, Hong Kong, and Korea supervised digital asset activity before most jurisdictions. Operating inside those regimes is an advantage, not a constraint.

Transaction experience

Singapore · Hong Kong · Seoul · Bangkok · Ho Chi Minh City · Kuala Lumpur · Shanghai

Presence

Singapore Partner hub

Businesses active here

Investment Banking

Capital formation and acquisition advisory across Southeast Asian and North Asian markets.

Private Equity

Growth positions in gaming, interactive media, and consumer technology.

Innovation

Digital asset market infrastructure in jurisdictions that regulated early.

Public Equity

Listed exposure to companies driving regional digital economies.

Where the firm concentrates

Gaming and interactive media

The firm’s regional coverage was built around this sector under a dedicated gaming lead, and remains concentrated in it.

Regulated digital markets

Structuring inside Singaporean, Hong Kong, and Korean regimes rather than in the gaps between them.

Proof

Established

Acquisition of Omni3 and appointment of a regional gaming lead, 2024.

Convening

Asia Disruptive Investment Summit, inaugural edition 2021.

Other markets

Discuss a mandate.

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Locations in Asia Pacific

Singapore — Asia Pacific hubHong Kong — North Asia gatewayAll locations

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