Private equity

The secondaries market anticipates 2024 will be a record year for volume, with first-half figures coming in at between $68bn and $72bn.

eQ PE SF V, which surpassed its target, is the smallest in the manager’s secondaries series.

There’s a growing set of more than 28,000 buyout companies with diminished IPO and M&A exit avenues, according to Kline Hill Partners’ Mike Bego.

The $1.2bn secondaries transaction involves R1 RCM, a healthcare sector revenue cycle management services provider.

The firm has temporarily delayed capital raising for GP Equity Solutions and is instead focusing on dealmaking, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Evergreen structures, sophisticated capital pacing models and the use of fund finance have all helped make private markets more accessible for an asset class that remains fundamentally illiquid.

While continuation funds are increasingly common liquidity solutions, not all of them are delivering the appropriate returns, according to Cari Lodge, head of secondaries at Commonfund.

The fund will be managed by Ant Solutions Partners, a newly formed spinoff of Ant Capital’s Solution Investment Group.

Our latest episode of Second Thoughts involved a basket of onions, a permanent marker and two well-respected professionals from Kirkland & Ellis and CVC Secondary Partners.

Swiss GP Gyrus Capital originally invested in Essential Pharma in 2019 as part of a family/founder succession plan process.