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New entrants and pricing are driving deals and could spur record volume, global head of Blackstone Strategic Partners Verdun Perry tells Secondaries Investor.

Benoît Durteste says investing the capital would not be challenging – a change in tone compared with comments he made in September regarding larger GP-led deployment.

Chirag Shah previously spent over a decade leading fund investments and co-investments at various institutional investors including DB Private Equity and GE Asset Management.

LP portfolio transactions deals don’t ‘play to the strengths’ of the Northern European powerhouse’s active ownership model, according to CFO Kim Henriksson.

The firm has appointed 15 people this year alone, including to newly created finance director and head of tax roles.

Pak-Seng Lai, former head of APAC private wealth at Blue Owl Capital and head of private markets APAC at UBS, joined Coller’s Hong Kong office in October.

Three secondaries-focused professionals have been included in affiliate title Private Equity International’s annual list of the most impressive women in private markets.

The firm closed its fourth dedicated impact secondaries fund on $252.2m in July, short of its $350m target.

The expansion follows the firm’s first SICAV fund, which raised $130m from Canadian clients.

There is a ‘huge supply/demand imbalance, particularly for larger sized transactions’ which is leading to the firm doing this, according to the firm’s chief investment officer and CEO.