Campbell Lutyens taps ex-KIC PE chief as Korea head

Campbell Lutyens & Co. Ltd., a UK private equity advisory firm, has tapped sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) former PE head Kim Jin-tae as its Seoul office chief, sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Kim, who left KIC in September, began his new position as a managing director and Korea head earlier this month. He is overseeing the firm’s fund placement and advisory services for South Korean institutional investors and global asset managers.  

Kim led PE and absolute return management at KIC where he spent a decade from 2013. Before joining the state-run fund, he served as a portfolio manager at Seoul-based Midas International Asset Management Ltd. for three years and worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management for two and half years.

Campbell Lutyens specializes in providing fund placement, secondary advisory and general partner capital advisory services across private markets, with some $296 billion raised since it was established in 1988. Headquartered in London, the firm operates 11 global offices in Europe, the US and the Asia-Pacific region.

Earlier this year, Campbell Lutyens hired Lim Chae-jun (CJ Lim), who supported investor relations and fundraising initiatives at STIC Investments Inc., a leading PE house in Korea. Prior to STIC, Lim worked in sales and relationship roles at Daishin Securities Co., VIP Research & Management Inc. and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Meanwhile, Campbell Lutyens’ ex-Korea head Kim Jung-min (Jay Kim) joined Franklin Templeton in August as head of APAC Benefit Street Partners/Alcentra, a private credit management platform.

KIC’s PE group head is held by Kim Jong-ho (James Kim), the alternative investment division head and the state-run fund’s deputy chief investment officer. The PE head vacancy is expected to be filled after the reshuffle later this month..

Write to Byeong-Hwa Ryu at hwahwa@hankyung.com

Jihyun Kim edited this article.