The polls are open for the annual PEI awards – don’t miss your chance to tell us who shone this year, including which secondaries firms, deals, advisors and law firms were second to none.
2 min read · 02 December 2016
A shake-up at the top of the Securities and Exchange Commission and anti-red tape sentiment in the Republican-led Congress, increase the odds of a US financial regulation climbdown.
3 min read · 01 December 2016
Amid the emergence of managers specialising in GP-led deals, advisors are still vital in a complex sector with inherent conflicts of interest, according to Yaron Zafir, head of secondaries at London-based advisory firm Rede Partners.
3 min read · 25 November 2016
Some of the industry’s biggest names gathered in London last week for a panel organised by law firm Proskauer. Secondaries Investor can bring you the inside track from the closed event.
3 min read · 18 November 2016
In the first part of our series on GP-led restructurings, KWM’s Gabriel Boghossian laid out what should happen at the beginning of the process. Now he takes us through the stages immediately before a deal.
3 min read · 17 November 2016
The industry did not want a Trump presidency, but now that it’s a reality, what are the silver linings?
3 min read · 11 November 2016
Gabriel Boghossian, who leads secondaries at King and Wood Mallesons, discusses what full disclosure in GP-led deals means and what to watch out for when testing the market.
3 min read · 10 November 2016
Campbell Lutyens and 17Capital are the latest firms to boost or establish their presence in New York, so how important is it that secondaries players have an address there?
2 min read · 04 November 2016
GP-led restructurings once sat comfortably in the ‘non-traditional secondaries’ bucket, but the definition is evolving as buyers search for higher returns through even more complex deals.
3 min read · 28 October 2016
While secondaries deals are at their core simply trades, buyers have become more specialised, and advisors too have become more selective about the areas they compete in, according to Sixpoint Partners’ Shawn Schestag.
3 min read · 23 October 2016