The direct secondaries firm in 2004 acquired a large stake in email marketer eCircle – now owned by TA Associates – as part of a portfolio purchased from Deutsche Telekom.
1 min read · 04 March 2010
The pension also spent $9m for a stake in Crestview Capital Partner’s second fund.
1 min read · 26 February 2010
The Chinese sovereign wealth fund is reportedly investing $500m each in custom accounts with secondaries players Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs and Pantheon Ventures.
2 min read · 18 February 2010
The global private equity investor has changed hands for the second time in six years.
1 min read · 10 February 2010
The secondaries market, which suffered from a major gap between seller and buyer expectations, recovered in the latter half of 2009 as bids went up and traditional buyers returned.
2 min read · 01 February 2010
The firm’s secondary team, which has committed 75% of its $2.9bn Fund VII, has jointly funded the spin-out of a German VC group whose new media portfolio includes some high profile companies like Groupon.
3 min read · 10 January 2010
The private equity investor, which is currently raising its fourth secondaries fund, sees its Asian secondaries activity doubling in the future.
1 min read · 18 December 2009
The Spanish fund of funds manager will not charge fees on its €65m secondaries fund until capital is actually put to work.
2 min read · 16 December 2009
The secondaries market will become much more active in 2010 ‘as continued portfolio net outflows force investors to intensify their search for liquidity’.
2 min read · 16 December 2009
Bids that came in for the private equity stakes were not ‘on par with the value of the assets’, the endowment’s CEO John Powers told PEO in an interview.
2 min read · 15 December 2009
