Deals

Ares in talks to acquire ex-Coller Capital execs’ secondaries shop

The firm is planning to acquire Spring Bridge Partners, having bought Landmark Partners in June.

Coller runs point on German water sports single asset

The mid-market deal is at least the second European single-asset transaction London-headquartered Coller Capital has done this month.

Coller, Hamilton Lane lead €1.25bn Wireless Logic deal

The UK-headquartered internet of things connectivity provider is held in Montagu V, which raised €2.75bn by final close in September 2015.

UK pension eyes secondaries sale for troubled fund

UBS’s 2008-vintage infrastructure fund holds a stake in Southern Water, which is trying to come back from a record fine for environmental breaches.

Vincent Gombault: Secondaries market to hit $2trn by 2030

The private assets secondaries market could be more liquid for large LPs than public markets, according to Ardian’s former fund of funds head.

TCV runs strip sale that could total $1bn

Strip sales have not been as pervasive as other forms of direct secondaries like GP-led continuation funds and single-asset deals.

CCMP eyes secondary market for more time, capital on two companies

GP-led deals like CCMP’s anticipated process represented a much larger portion of secondaries deal volume last year and this year to date.

Goldman Sachs joins private equity GP-led party

The investment bank has run what is understood to be its first GP-led secondaries process on PE assets in a CPP Investments-backed process.

CPP Investments backs C$1bn BT Pension stapled strip sale

The transaction, which involved a global portfolio of mid-market and growth-focused fund and co-investment stakes, is the third such process the pair and Hermes GPE have partnered on.