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Blackstone Strategic Partners anchored EQT’s new AI Infrastructure Fund. Once again, secondaries has created a blueprint for loftier goals.

The director reunites with Michael Wieczorek, who joined UBS to head its EMEA secondaries advisory unit late last year from DC Advisory.

While more capital is entering infra secondaries, much of it is being deployed by relatively new entrants in a market characterised by variety, the Paris-headquartered asset manager’s co-CEO tells affiliate title PE Hub.

The GP stakes giant is ‘excited’ at the prospect of working with the tail-end specialist to grow it into ‘one of the premier operators in this market’, founding partner and chief executive John Carter tells Secondaries Investor.

Hollyport Capital has chosen to remain independent, accepting the backing of Blue Owl in a move that reflects how the industry’s growth is likely to be fuelled.

Blue Owl has acquired a passive stake in the tail-end specialist, which will ‘ultimately represent’ approximately 25% of the economic interests of the firm.

The transaction values engineering services company H&MV at €1.4bn.

The Switzerland-headquartered manager will seek to invest in LP-led, GP-led and opportunistic deals with an emphasis on senior lending, Secondaries Investor understands.

Assessing a quick-flip continuation vehicle on the asset’s hold period alone is an imperfect metric.

The firm, which is also planning to launch its first infra secondaries vehicle, has raised $9.3bn to date for Fund VI, according to its H1 2026 results.