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SQ Capital, founded by Mustafa Siddiqui, will focus on mid-market secondaries opportunities.

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The firm emphasises the timing of its primary and secondaries investments in companies to produce impressive performance metrics.

There’s a growing set of more than 28,000 buyout companies with diminished IPO and M&A exit avenues, according to Kline Hill Partners’ Mike Bego.

The departure comes six months after the firm said it was opening in the UAE to deepen its push into the Gulf region.

While continuation funds are increasingly common liquidity solutions, not all of them are delivering the appropriate returns, according to Cari Lodge, head of secondaries at Commonfund.

The Norgay Partners co-founder had advised firms including PJT Partners, Nomura, Northleaf Capital Partners, UBS and Morgan Stanley on executive search.

The US pension giant considers secondaries investments an important contributor of distinct advantages not found in traditional commingled funds, according to Anton Orlich, managing investment director for private equity.