tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36355980303067581582012-02-03T16:31:58.620+07:00Leopard Capital was founded in 2007 by Douglas Clayton as a partnership of experienced Asian investment professionals with backgrounds in fund management, investment banking, business consulting, and operations management. This dynamic collaboration of Asian expertise provides Leopard Capital with a sophisticated understanding of the region's development trends and successful business models. The Group leverages its partners' insights with local expertise to source unique deal flow.About Leopard Capitalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06784609520165643789noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3635598030306758158.post-19672435641318151102012-01-25T13:21:00.015+07:002012-02-03T16:31:58.653+07:00

January 2012The last time I spoke with my friend Doug Clayton our attention was focused on the unfolding and rapidly rising market in Myanmar, a country Doug is heading to shortly and one I’ll be returning to later this year with some friends. I caught up with Doug fresh off a plane from Haiti, back home in Cambodia.Doug has lived in Asia for the past 26 years, in 5 different countries and moved

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Viewpoint by Douglas Clayton Investor, January 2012Frontier investors are eyeing Burma as its newly elected government moves to bury the country's pariah status and rejoin the global economy. President Thein Sein has blunted human rights criticism by releasing political prisoners, relaxing press censorship, and drawing dissident Aung San Suu Kyi into the political process. Mr Thein seems

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Interview by Keith W. Rabin, June 2011Thank you Doug for speaking with us today. Before we begin, can you tell us about your background and how you came to form Leopard Capital?Over the past 25 years that I’ve been investing in Asia, I‘ve seen numerous countries transform from avoided frontiers into popular emerging markets. I set up Leopard Capital in 2007 to invest in the next wave of

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June 2011Cambodia, once regarded as a spill-over investment from Vietnam, is showing signs of standing on its own feet as frontier funds start to produce strong returns.Frontier investors such as Leopard Capital – a private equity fund which launched a potential $100m Cambodia-focused fund in 2008 only to close with $34m – is now finding renewed interest in the country, holding the door open as

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By Douglas Clayton, March 2011Dividing Old Havana from Chinatown is Cuba's Capitolio Nacional, a monumental edifice with a fateful past. El Capitolio was conceived during the "Roaring Twenties", when the island led the world in sugar exports and the future seemed blue-sky. President Gerardo Machado, who dreamed of turning Cuba into the Switzerland of the Americas, decided that his four million

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By Douglas Clayton, August 2010Over dinner, one of our European investors tells me he's building his retirement home in Myanmar, of all places. "You should come see it", he says, and goes on to describe a housing estate so that sounds nothing like the Myanmar I remember. It doesn't take much to convince me to join him there for a look.I fell in love with Myanmar on my first visit there in the

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By Douglas Clayton, May 2010We're on a marathon investment inspection tour of the South and East coasts of Sri Lanka. Locals like to say the East has the island's best beaches, natural harbor, fishing, farmland etc. so it's time to put such claims to the eyeball test. The East also provides a preview of what reconstruction programs may lay ahead for the North, since the East was liberated from

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By Douglas Clayton, January 2010We have journeyed to the Land of a Million Elephants, also known as Laos, to visit the old royal town of Luang Prabang. Luang Prabang is one of those places where even before the plane lands you already know you’re going to like it. The scenery as you descend is dramatic, with rugged, forested mountain ridges studded with gold and white pagodas, bisected below by

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By Douglas Clayton, November 2009This weekend I’m with my family in Kep, 180 kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh, where the Cambodian coastline butts up against Vietnam. One of Cambodia’s time-warp towns, Kep was established as a French resort a century ago and until the 1970s served as the getaway of choice for Cambodia’s rich and famous when it was known as Kep-sur-Mer. Sadly the swanky villas

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By Douglas Clayton, October 2009It’s a public holiday and I’m making a day trip to rural Kampong Thom (“KT”) province with some Cambodian friends. It seems all of Phnom Penh is heading to the countryside for the Hungry Ghost Festival, and our driver suggests taking a different route which turns out to be equally jammed. Along the way we pass two long-span bridges being built across the Tonle Sap

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By Douglas Clayton, September 2009Since few outsiders have been to them it’s easy to forget that Cambodia has over 60 pristine islands dotting its coastline. I’ve been curious to investigate the Cambodian answer to Robinson Crusoe question: how do people make a living on an undeveloped tropical island? When I hear that locals are farming seaweed on Koh Tonsay (Rabbit Island) I decide to go check

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By Douglas Clayton, August 2009To take the pulse of Cambodia’s heartland, Tony, Sarah and I head out to Battambang, Cambodia’s second biggest city. The drive out takes four hours and traffic lightens once we clear Phnom Penh’s sprawl. It’s rainy season now, so the rice fields lining the highway are a dazzling green. As we pass through the provincial capitals of Kampong Chhnang and Pursat, I feel

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By Douglas Clayton, June 2009One of Cambodia’s future growth drivers will be the development of its 440 km virgin coastline. We recently visited Sihanoukville to get an update on the opportunities there; here are our travel notes.After the three hour afternoon drive from Phnom Penh we head directly to our favorite local restaurant to watch the sun set over the water while feasting on Kampot

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By Douglas Clayton, Published in Dr. Marc Faber's Gloom Boom & Doom Report, January 2008As deleveraging decimates the world economy, the least damaged are the least developed countries like Cambodia that were left off the guest list of the global liquidity party. Cambodia now stands out by not standing on the brink of financial ruin or a looming “lost decade”. The government’s finances remain

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