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There’s a growing set of more than 28,000 buyout companies with diminished IPO and M&A exit avenues, according to Kline Hill Partners’ Mike Bego.

The $1.2bn secondaries transaction involves R1 RCM, a healthcare sector revenue cycle management services provider.

Infrastructure secondaries are enjoying a surge in dealflow and limited competition thanks to significant barriers to entry, seven specialists tell affiliate title Infrastructure Investor.

The deal marks the first continuation vehicle for Guardian Capital Partners.

Evergreen structures, sophisticated capital pacing models and the use of fund finance have all helped make private markets more accessible for an asset class that remains fundamentally illiquid.

Global Infrastructure Solutions is targeting $2.5bn and for the first time has a dedicated secondaries sleeve.

The firm was a participating investor in a single-asset CV for Essential Pharma.

The firm’s third private credit secondaries fund in the series could be its largest to date.

Coller Capital’s latest barometer has found that most investors see the main purpose of continuation funds as providing an alternative to selling assets at a low valuation.