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Morgan Stanley taps Newbury for secondaries MD hire

The firm is investing its $2.5bn Ashbridge Transformational Secondaries Fund II, which closed in 2023.

Greenhill hires Mercury’s former secondaries head Banerjee as MD

Devrup Banerjee will spend the bulk of his time advising on GP-led deals at the Mizuho-owned investment bank, Secondaries Investor understands.

Rothschild taps secondaries vet Lanel to advise on GP-leds – updated

Nicolas Lanel, who headed European secondaries advisory at Evercore and UBS before founding Flow Advisors, will support the private capital unit’s development in Europe, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Moelis’s secondaries buildout continues with hire from Jefferies

This is Moelis’s second hire from Jefferies this year – it has already employed Matthew Wesley to head up its private funds advisory capabilities.

Lazard secondaries head sees record-breaking wave of dealflow in Q1

LPs and GPs alike are finding secondaries technology ‘extremely beneficial’, Holcombe Green said at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 conference in Orlando this week.

Jefferies MD Andy Nick to depart

Nick’s departure follows that of Jefferies’ global head of its private capital group, Matthew Wesley, who is set to join Moelis.

Eaton bolsters its secondaries team with former Lazard VP

Eaton launched its GP solutions business in 2023 hiring a team from Credit Suisse.

What’s driving the rise in private credit CVs?

While continuation funds offer a solve for managing complexities in private credit, managers must be mindful of the challenges.

The next round of musical chairs

No matter how successful the build out of a secondaries team has been, senior talent staying put is not a given.

Majority of GPs plan to use secondaries market over coming two-year period – PJT

Over 75% of manager respondents say it is likely or highly likely they’ll look to the secondaries market across 2025 and 2026 compared with 45% in PJT’s 2023 survey.