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Infra’s single assets: From liquidity tool to access strategy

The single-asset secondaries market within infrastructure is blooming. However, discipline, alignment and entry valuations remain critical to ensuring buyers bag a good deal, writes Stafford’s William Greene.

4 min read · 07 August 2026

China’s performance paradox: The opportunities and risks for secondaries

The RMB secondaries market has concluded its first full cycle. While there are opportunities to be had, there are risks to be overcome to ensure sought-after returns, writes Nebula Advisors’ Stanley Geng.

4 min read · 23 July 2026

Is UK regulatory scrutiny a competitive disadvantage for secondaries deals?

The real challenge appears operational rather than structural from a geographical standpoint, writes Winston & Strawn’s Yulia Makarova.

4 min read · 28 May 2026

Better to keep than pass the parcel – the timely case for CVs

Critics argue CVs entrench managers or delay inevitable exits. However, structured with transparency and fairness, these funds align interests rather than obscure them, writes AEA Investors’ and Painswick Capital’s John Garcia.

4 min read · 15 April 2026

GPs should listen to the LP-led secondaries market signal

Holding on to laggard assets may conflict with the core objective of PE: maximising time-weighted returns for LPs, writes Adam Spence, of Partners Capital.

4 min read · 12 February 2026

Netley on why investors are increasingly turning to the tertiary market

Sovereign funds and insurers are using third-time-round fund stake transactions as part of their portfolio management processes, write Caspar Berendsen, Álvaro Rosado and Robert Perry.

4 min read · 02 February 2026

Private markets’ burgeoning capital concentration challenge

By appealing to retail and large institutional investors, mega-managers may end up with the lion’s share of capital, with implications for themselves and their investors, writes Cambridge Associates’ Andrea Auerbach.

3 min read · 27 October 2025

The CV alternative when growth is the objective

The growth and adoption of mid-hold equity is expanding the capital market toolkits of GPs and providing an alternative to single-asset CVs when an extended investment runway for portfolio company growth is the primary goal, write Audax’s Kumber Husain and Daniel Green.

4 min read · 18 September 2025

How secondaries can bridge the valuation gap amid volatility – Akin

While rapidly changing market conditions can create significant bid-ask spreads, there are tools and concepts the secondaries market can borrow from M&A to get deals across the line.

3 min read · 14 May 2025

Understanding the clawback risks in LP-led secondaries

It has become increasingly common for sellers to seek to negotiate a limit on their clawback liability, according to law firm DMX Partners.

6 min read · 01 May 2025

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