Private equity

Dawson Portfolio Finance 6 has beaten its target as the firm continues to deepen relationships with US-based LPs.

Japan Private Equity Opportunity 2024 turned down overseas investors as it was oversubscribed by domestic LPs, WM partner Shohei Suzuki and AIC CEO Reijiro Samura tell Secondaries Investor.

The firm has registered BlueEarth EM Impact Secondaries II, a regulatory filing shows.

An explosion of hefty – and, in some cases, repeat – continuation fund processes underscores the increasing maturation of Europe’s secondaries landscape.

Full-year deal volume could reach as much as $230bn, according to the investment bank’s estimates.

The Dutch pension administrator’s sale is part of a wave of sales processes that institutional investors are using to help manage their programmes amid an exit drought and a slowdown in distributions.

The buyout firm had moved Curium Pharma into a €1.2bn single-asset continuation fund in 2020.

CIO of $6bn Midwest pension would prefer the system remain ‘more of a buyer than a seller’ when it comes to private equity funds.

Just 17 buyers accounted for nearly 70% of total secondaries volume in the first half, according to a report by the advisory firm.

The firm is understood to be running a process to move the vegetation management services company out of its $934m Fund IV and into a new vehicle.