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The firm has hired a Goldman Sachs Asset Management investment professional as it bulks up its secondaries team.

In part 2 of sister title Private Equity International’s secondaries roundtable, participants discuss fundless sponsor restructurings, single asset deals and how to find the upside of a market downturn.

The appointment is the firm’s second this year and brings its total staff to seven.

The new platform will sit within the firm’s secondaries unit, Strategic Partners, and work with existing impact managers across all asset classes.

CPPIB, ICG and Kirkland & Ellis are among the firm’s represented on PEI’s list of the 40 future leaders of private equity.

The world’s largest asset manager has added a director and an associate to its growing secondaries team.

The departure of MJ Hudson’s former private funds head Ted Craig was revealed last week by Secondaries Investor.

Vjerana Spajic joins the Carlyle unit to focus on preferred equity, six months after Secondaries Investor reported she had left the firm.

Ted Craig, a partner and secondaries specialist, has left the London-headquartered law firm and asset management consultancy.

Neil Harper, who has been at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners since 2006 and oversees its secondaries business, is the unit’s second senior departure in six months.