Nomura Holdings Inc. will double the headcount of its newly established principal investment business, Nomura Capital Partners Co. Ltd., by hiring about 15 people within the year, Bloomberg News reported May 31, citing Masahiko Maekawa, CEO at Nomura Capital Partners.
The brokerage firm intends to poach professionals from buyout funds, consulting firms and trading houses to originate deals over 10 years, the report said.
Nomura is resuming its principal investment business, which is investing its own money in companies needing revamping, with a focus on smaller firms with succession planning issue.
The group stopped its previous principal investment business after it started losing money from its acquisition of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in 2008.
Maekawa is hopeful this time that the business will flourish as private equity is booming in Japan, and will have a knock-on effect on its investment banking and wealth management units down the line.
