Real estate

Landmark launches Real Assets Fund II

North Carolina Department of State Treasurer made a $250m commitment to the fund.

Aberdeen Standard secondaries teams combine under Knechtli

Patrick Knechtli, a partner with SL Capital Partners, is leading the merged entity’s private equity secondaries business.

Evercore eyes more RE fund recaps with Greenhill hire

Greenhill’s Bill Thompson has joined the firm’s PCA group as co-chief executive alongside Nigel Dawn.

Edmond de Rothschild seeks €1bn across multiple strategies

The French private investment unit’s plans include a €175m ‘hybrid fund of funds’ with secondaries and co-investment pockets.

Metropolitan in $139m real estate close

The Carlyle subsidiary has been in market since January last year seeking $1bn to invest in real estate secondaries.

Landmark draws second blood

But is the firm’s Swiss secondaries rival paying as much attention these days?

Landmark closes largest ever real estate secondaries fund

The firm’s eighth dedicated real estate fund closed above target on $3.3bn and is already 42% deployed.

Lexington and Coller drive fundraising activity

Private equity and real estate secondaries funds are seeking around $9bn more compared with the first quarter of last year.

CalSTRS backs Partners RE for up to $200m

This is the Californian pension fund’s first real estate secondaries commitment and first investment with the Swiss firm.

Execution is the key to a successful spin-out

Making the business case for spinning out is often easy; the potential pitfalls come from the details of doing it.