Private equity

The director reunites with Michael Wieczorek, who joined UBS to head its EMEA secondaries advisory unit late last year from DC Advisory.

While more capital is entering infra secondaries, much of it is being deployed by relatively new entrants in a market characterised by variety, the Paris-headquartered asset manager’s co-CEO tells affiliate title PE Hub.

Recruitment software platform Talentech has already been the subject of a CV, having been moved into a multi-asset vehicle by joint owner Verdane earlier this year.

The investment manager for Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation put capital into a private equity continuation fund in Asia last year alongside KKR, Amit Kakar tells Secondaries Investor.

Hollyport Capital has chosen to remain independent, accepting the backing of Blue Owl in a move that reflects how the industry’s growth is likely to be fuelled.

The pension’s secondary funds and co-investments grew 36% to approximately $3.7bn, per its latest investment disclosure.

Blue Owl has acquired a passive stake in the tail-end specialist, which will ‘ultimately represent’ approximately 25% of the economic interests of the firm.

The transaction values engineering services company H&MV at €1.4bn.

Four of the firm’s cornerstone evergreen products are heavily weighted to secondaries investments.

The insurer had shopped a portfolio of funds and co-investments with a net asset value of $1.8bn, Secondaries Investor understands.