32nd Annual AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum - 2019

Ms. Trista Chen is a Partner with ERM leading the Transaction Services practice for Greater China. Trista Chen has over 13 years of experience in Strategic Environmental Consulting, advising clients on M&A programs, Post-Merger-Integration, as well as operational compliance and HSE excellence. Her expertise lies in the evaluation of environmental liabilities and their impacts on industrial operations in the context of increasing regulatory complexity in China. Aside of the focus of due diligence services, her responsibilities in recent years also cover key clients management, in particular for clients in the chemical sector and financial sector.

Ms Chen has been working with Private Equity and other financial sector clients in Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) services following international guideline, including Due Diligence, ESG policy and framework developments, ESG related training, etc.

Angus is a Principal Consultant at ERM with over 15 years of experience as Sustainability Financing professional. Angus is currently leading the Transaction Services in ERM China and Hong Kong on ESG advisory services and due diligence for financial clients, including private equity (PEs), equator principle financial institutions (EPFIs), and bilateral and multilateral development banks.

Angus has advised on over 100 PE transactions for client in recent years, include: Advent, ADM, ADV, AIC, Angelo-Gordon, Blackstone, Bain Capital, Bridgepoint, Capital Group Private Equity, CAF, Carlyle, CDC, CVC, Cenova, Climate Fund Managers, DCP, Forebright, Gaorong, Goldman Sachs, GIP, KKR, Macquarie, Navis, Nexus Point, NewQuest, Proterra, Olympus, OTPP, TPG and many more. Engagements comprise due diligence support, incorporating sustainability improvements to 100-day plans, support on Responsible Investment /ESG management systems/policy development, and delivering resource efficiency and value enhancement within portfolio companies.

Jaideep is a Partner at ERM with over 17 years’ experience as a sustainability professional. Jaideep is the Account Director for Private Equity (PE) in the EMEA region. Jaideep has led ESG advisory services for PE clients across the globe to meet investor ESG expectations at fund raising, to develop policy and management framework including reporting, due diligence and helping drive value enhancement initiatives in portfolio companies.

Jaideep is the relationship manager for firms such as KKR, EQT, Permira, Bain Capital and Bridgepoint and has also worked with Carlyle, Advent, Warburg Pincus, Inflexion, Oak Hill Advisors and Pension Funds such as PGGM and APG on ESG issues.

Jaideep was retained by Invest Europe to develop and deliver parts of their first Responsible Investment training course from 2012-2015 focusing on effective ESG integration in investment processes. Jaideep is also the co-lead on a global project with the PRI to develop a Private Equity reporting and monitoring guidance.

ERM is the global market leader in the provision of Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) related consulting services to a client base of over 100 General Partners (GPs) and Limited Partners (LPs) on a consistent and regular basis. ERM's holistic service offering covers the full breadth of a Private Equity (PE) firms’ ESG needs across the investment life cycle, including GP-level policies, procedures and reporting, ESG due-diligence (acquisition and vendor), Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), portfolio company value protection and value creation strategies, ESG compliance and risk management.

We are committed to creating value for our clients by providing strategic and technical advice in a commercial context. Our outputs comprise bankable reports, as a highly respected ESG adviser to lenders and pension funds, which rely comfortably on ERM's findings. Our 500+ PE assignments a year in addition to our work with PRI in helping them develop the ESG monitoring and reporting guidance have helped ERM build a leading reputation amongst the Private Capital markets globally.

Sustainability is at the heart of the services ERM provides and how we operate our business.