The niche secondaries investor – which has helped firms including SVG with refinancing needs – had a 75% re-up rate for a fund that’s more than double the size of its predecessor.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
James McConnell is relocating to London to lead the firm’s European private equity secondaries activity, which has been increasing as banks and other financial institutions use the secondary market to sell fund interests.
1 min read · 05 November 2012
French private equity group Idinvest, formerly the in-house arm of investment bank Allianz, has held a €100m first close on its new secondaries fund.
1 min read · 07 September 2012
The Lombard Odier spinout is targeting €720 million for its Euro Choice V fund that will make primary and secondary fund investments in Europe’s mid-market.
2 min read · 24 July 2012
PropertyMatch, a European secondaries trading platform for units in unlisted real estate funds part-owned by CBRE, says it traded more than €270m in the first quarter of the year, beating last year’s corresponding period by 240 percent.
2 min read · 10 April 2012
Previously known as Credit Agricole Private Equity, the re-named Omnes Capital, which was acquired by private equity secondaries firm Coller Capital last week, will continue with a strategy that includes renewable energy and infrastructure.
1 min read · 02 April 2012
A collection of 23 regional Swedish insurers has put up one of the largest-ever secondaries offerings in Europe, including stakes in managers like TA Associates, BC Partners, TPG, Advent, Apax and Bain.
2 min read · 20 March 2012
DFJ Esprit Secondaries will be the largest venture secondaries firm in Europe, as the buzz around venture escalates in the run up to Facebook’s public market debut.
2 min read · 14 March 2012
Coller Capital has agreed the latest in a slew of banking-related secondaries this year sparked by the forthcoming Volcker rule, acquiring the in-house private equity arm of French bank Crédit Agricole.
1 min read · 16 December 2011
AXA Private Equity continues to capitalise on regulations which make private equity assets less attractive to banks, sealing its fourth secondaries deal to take the value of its recent portfolio acquisitions to $5.1bn.
2 min read · 30 June 2011
