Celebrating the secondaries market’s stand-out players
Now in its second year, the Secondaries Investor Awards celebrate the best-in-class buyers, advisers and transactions seen across the market globally. A judging panel comprising PEI Group editors painstakingly selected the winners and runners-up from hundreds of submissions. Here, we celebrate those that shone in each category.
PREVIOUS AWARDS
Secondaries Awards 2024: Americas winners
In the first PEI awards to give secondaries its own list of winners, Lexington Partners wins Secondaries Firm of the Year in the Americas.
Secondaries Awards 2024: EMEA winners
Coller Capital misses out on Secondaries Firm of the Year to Ardian, which transacted on more than $15bn across the US and Europe during the judging period.
Secondaries Awards 2024: Asia-Pacific winners
The top secondaries deals, firms, law firms and advisers of the year from the APAC region.
LATEST SECONDARIES INVESTOR HEADLINES
Ardian, HSBC and StepStone lead Nordic’s near €2bn multi-asset CV
CVC Secondary Partners is also backing the deal, which is expected to close in late Q4, PEI Secondaries Investor has learned.
Make or break the relationship
Small- and mid-sized GPs are following their larger peers to the CV market at a clip – relationship management within their LP base, however, is arguably a more thorny issue.
A legacy approach to CVs: Hollyport seeks strong assets following longer holds
The tail-end specialist – which PEI Secondaries Investor understands has raised $1.5bn for its latest GP-led programme – looks to back assets that have more to show after five-plus years in a fund, Steve Nicholls and Catherine Badour say.
Inside PEI Group’s inaugural Private Markets 100 ranking
Read our full report for details of the 100 firms that make the ranking as well as our insight and analysis of each constituent asset class: private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries.
Going hybrid: A new solution for a complex market
Hybrid capital appears to be having a moment. The strategy’s knack for complex deals at a time of market disruption is juicing demand – including among liquidity-strapped GPs.
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