News & Analysis

The success of Ardian’s recent launch of two evergreen vehicles has been ‘above our expectations’ and the firm has designs to launch more products, executive vice-president Jan Philipp Schmitz told Secondaries Investor.

Chief executive Ken Moelis has previously said the investment bank would be ‘aggressive’ in building out its secondaries advisory business.

Japan Private Equity Opportunity 2024 turned down overseas investors as it was oversubscribed by domestic LPs, WM partner Shohei Suzuki and AIC CEO Reijiro Samura tell Secondaries Investor.

The fund launched earlier this summer and is already close to catching the total of its predecessor.

Inflows gathered by Carlyle AlpInvest accounted for 38% of the alternatives giant’s overall capital raising during the second quarter.

The firm has registered BlueEarth EM Impact Secondaries II, a regulatory filing shows.

The Mexican restaurant chain deal marks the first continuation vehicle for food sector-focused Butterfly Equity.

Gregory Hardiman, who previously co-led 17Capital’s US investment efforts, has been named managing director and head of GP-LP solutions at Crescent Capital.

Co-CEO Marc Lipschultz said ‘we plan to be the leader’ in GP-leds during the firm’s 31 July Q2 conference call.

The total volume figure for real estate secondaries can change depending on the definition of GP-led deals.