The sale is worth as much as $200m and comes as secondaries funds and funds of funds increasingly tap the market to dispose of tail-end interests.
2 min read · 17 October 2016
Shareholders in the London-listed private equity investor now have until Tuesday to accept HarbourVest’s offer for the company.
2 min read · 17 October 2016
An overwhelming majority of investors in the Swiss firm’s sole fund have agreed to sell their stakes to the bank’s private equity unit, Secondaries Investor has learned.
2 min read · 13 October 2016
The firm used its $1.8bn REIT to acquire a diversified portfolio of limited partnership interests in 41 private equity real estate funds.
2 min read · 12 October 2016
Adding operational value can be an acrimonious process, as Hong Kong direct secondaries specialist NewQuest Capital Partners discovered.
2 min read · 10 October 2016
In an effort to trump a £748m preliminary agreement SVG reached with rival suitors Goldman Sachs and CPPIB, HarbourVest has also offered to buy the London-listed private equity investor’s entire portfolio, but for at least £783m.
3 min read · 10 October 2016
The global investment manager is giving shareholders more time to consider its offer after SVG said it planned to sell its entire portfolio to Goldman Sachs and CPPIB for around £748m.
2 min read · 07 October 2016
The London-listed private equity investor has agreed ‘in principle’ to sell all its assets for about £748m, setting aside an earlier deal with another group.
3 min read · 06 October 2016
News the pair is offering to buy all of SVG comes barely a day after the London-listed private equity investor reached an agreement ‘in principle’ to sell half its portfolio to two other buyers.
2 min read · 05 October 2016
The two firms have agreed to acquire 50 percent of SVG’s portfolio with just over a day and a half to go before shareholders must decide whether to accept a rival offer from HarbourVest.
3 min read · 04 October 2016
