Andrea Echberg, former head of infrastructure in the principal finance team at Societe Generale, has joined the London team of private equity and infrastructure investment firm Pantheon as partner and head of European infrastructure investments.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Advantage Partners will sell a coffee shop franchise to MBK Partners for about $480 million, highlighting a growing trend of GP-to-GP secondaries in Japan.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $70.8 billion pension system is considering a massive sale of real estate holdings in a continuing effort to cull under-performing or redundant investments from its portfolio.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Recently promoted director Andy Nick will lead the private equity investment bank’s West Coast office.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $6.4bn retirement system plans to invest in mezzanine and direct lending, distressed, secondaries, buyouts and funds of funds.
2 min read · 16 January 2013
Harvey Lambert, head of the firm’s secondaries group, left in December. A second high-ranking secondaries executive, Kennon Koay, left around the same time.
2 min read · 16 January 2013
The niche secondaries investor – which has helped firms including SVG with refinancing needs – had a 75% re-up rate for a fund that’s more than double the size of its predecessor.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
The firm is expected to hold a first close on its third mid-market secondaries fund by the end of the year.
2 min read · 11 December 2012
Daryl Cohen has been named partner in the secondaries firm’s London office. Vision has also promoted three other investment professionals to associate.
2 min read · 11 December 2012
The firm has already put one-fifth of its over-subscribed new fund to work with an eye to invest more in Asian secondaries than ever before.
2 min read · 10 December 2012
