BC ‘s Fund VIII closed on €5.8bn in 2005 and recently sold cleaning product and insect control company Spotless Group for €940m.
2 min read · 17 July 2014
Blackstone’s secondaries group aims to raise at least $3.5bn for its latest fund, investments from which already include stakes in 3i and Ares funds.
2 min read · 17 July 2014
Approximately 75% of LPs agreed to sell their stakes in the firm’s 2000-vintage Fund II, while the remaining LPs opted to roll over into a new fund.
3 min read · 17 July 2014
The investment consulting and advisory firm will focus on opportunities with institutional funds in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions of the US.
2 min read · 16 July 2014
Secondaries transaction volume reached $17bn for the first half of the year, making the market very seller-favourable, according to Cogent Partners managing director Todd Miller.
1 min read · 16 July 2014
Seventeen-year Adams Street veteran Hanneke Smits, who chairs the firm’s secondary and primary investment committees, plans to leave her position at the end of 2014.
1 min read · 16 July 2014
ARCIS is targeting €350m for its European Secondary Development Fund V which will invest on the European private equity secondaries market.
1 min read · 16 July 2014
Charterhouse’s CCP Fund IX raised €4bn in 2008 and invested in UK-based greeting card retailer Card Factory, which floated on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year.
3 min read · 15 July 2014
PineBridge Secondary Partners III has raised about $60m toward its $500m target, in the past year.
1 min read · 14 July 2014
The market for small- and medium-sized transactions is picking up, writes Lars Lindqvist, founder and chief executive of broker Cattegatt.
3 min read · 14 July 2014
