Paris-based private equity (PE) firm Ardian has opened a 4,000 sq ft office in Hong Kong's main business district, with an eye on growing its US$3 billion investment out of the company's total US$200 billion in assets under management (AUM). The new office at the Two International Finance Centre in Central marked the company's fifth location in Asia and would initially have eight permanent staff, according to Jason Yao, the group's head of Greater China. "The reason we have an office here is to be close ...