Specialist Functions

Edward Lavish

Managing Director - Portfolio Risk & Transactions

  • Business line
    EQT Private Capital Asia
  • Title
    Managing Director - Portfolio Risk & Transactions
  • Office
    Hong Kong, China

Experience

Edward Lavish is a Managing Director in the BPEA EQT team. Edward worked for BPEA from 2020 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT and was renamed BPEA EQT.

Prior to joining BPEA, Edward was an M&A partner at Deloitte based in Hong Kong for over 14 years and served as M&A Transaction Services Leader for Asia. Prior to Hong Kong, Edward worked in Deloitte’s New York office, including three years as an Audit Partner serving global private equity clients. Prior to Deloitte, he worked in an international finance and M&A capacity at General Instrument, served as interim CFO of a multinational division of General Signal and spent 7 years at Price Waterhouse in both the U.S. and the Netherlands.

Edward graduated from Lafayette College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business, and is a CPA (inactive).