The deal involved mature stakes in Ardian’s 2010-vintage AXA Secondary Fund V, Secondaries Investor has learned.
2 min read · 05 October 2017
The firm is putting together a 10-strong secondaries team, split between London and New York, to focus on vanilla deals as well as more complex processes.
1 min read · 03 October 2017
Investments made by the firm’s $2.7bn fund reveal high exposure to growth capital and China, according to its interim results.
2 min read · 03 October 2017
Cipio Partners’ Roland Dennert discusses the kind of deals he is seeing, the problem with unicorns and how a maturing tech industry is likely to mean larger funds in future.
4 min read · 02 October 2017
The French private equity firm has sold a tail-end interest in a Norwegian buyout fund on the back of a portfolio sale to Finland’s eQ.
2 min read · 29 September 2017
Michele Russo, a Doughty Hanson and Lazard veteran who joined the buyout firm as a managing director, has left after over one year in the role, Secondaries Investor has learned.
2 min read · 28 September 2017
Ardian had a 50% interest-free deferment on the purchase price, to be repaid on 31 December.
2 min read · 27 September 2017
The private markets firm is two-thirds of the way to the $500m target for Fund VIII which can acquire stakes in funds focusing on the strategy.
2 min read · 25 September 2017
The London-based investment firm, which is raising its third secondaries infrastructure fund, added Richard Sem as a partner and two other professionals.
1 min read · 25 September 2017