Japan investor forming Myanmar private-equity fund

Patricia Higase, a half-Burmese, half-Japanese equities investment veteran, is laying the groundwork for a private-equity fund to invest in Myanmar. She has established Link Road Capital Management as a vehicle to launch funds investing in Myanmar on behalf of global institutional investors. Based in Tokyo, where she is a Japanese equities manager, Higase says the fund must wait for US sanctions against Myanmar to lift, and for the government in Naypyidaw to pass an investments …