Hillhouse-backed Ascentium buys fellow business services firm Dezan Shira, as the platform tries to ride China’s surge in outbound investment
Ascentium, an Asia-based business services platform backed by Hillhouse Investment, is acquiring Dezan Shira & Associates, a 33-year-old advisory firm best known for its Asia Briefing intelligence platform. The deal is Ascentium’s most recent in more than a dozen acquisitions,…