Goldman Sachs and Hamilton Lane’s backing of a $1.35bn VC directs deal shows it is no longer a place where buyers struggle to write big tickets.
2 min read · 06 December 2018
Armed with the most recent data, Nigel Dawn, senior managing director at Evercore, reflects on the market’s growth, what has surprised him the most in its evolution and where he sees it heading in the next decade.
4 min read · 04 December 2018
Ardian has become the latest private markets firm to open an office in a country whose institutional investors are hungry for private markets.
3 min read · 03 December 2018
LPs worried about conflicts in fund restructuring situations may be reassured by Charterhouse’s sale of Comexposium.
3 min read · 29 November 2018
Buyers who acquire assets from a fund that is winding down need to be aware of several key issues, including the lack of a counterparty from which to recover any losses, according to Proskauer’s Andy Shore.
3 min read · 29 November 2018
The spin-out of ABN AMRO’s private equity unit to form Capital A shows buyers are willing to accept less by way of secondaries assets if they really like the team.
3 min read · 22 November 2018
Ambiguity around who pays for what when a vehicle comes to the end of its term could scupper growth in the GP-led secondaries market.
3 min read · 15 November 2018
Submissions for 12 secondaries categories in sister publication Private Equity International’s annual industry awards close next week.
2 min read · 08 November 2018
Tom Angell, partner at financial services firm WithumSmith+Brown, dissects the results of sister publication pfm’s Fees & Expenses Benchmarking Survey.
5 min read · 07 November 2018
There is a cohort of crisis-era funds which investors would be better off getting out of or re-incentivising their GP.
2 min read · 01 November 2018
