Single Assets

Secondaries’ emerging leaders: GP-leds to become a proactive portfolio management tool

The GP-led market will become ‘indistinguishable’ from the sponsor-to-sponsor market over the next five years as PE firms seek to gain access to companies via CVs, one 2026 Next Gen Leader says.

CV pricing strengthens amid growing buyer competition

New market entrants are seeking to pre-empt auction processes to ‘differentiate themselves’, according to Lazard’s Kevan Comstock.

Secondaries builds the infrastructure

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

ICG backs Onex’s Ryan again in CV-on-CV process

The process comes three years after Onex first moved the tax services provider into a single-asset continuation fund.

Hollyport backs Viking Growth’s €160m CV for Talentech

Recruitment software platform Talentech has already been the subject of a CV, having been moved into a multi-asset vehicle by joint owner Verdane earlier this year.

What Novo Holdings’ Asia head wants from CVs

The investment manager for Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation put capital into a private equity continuation fund in Asia last year alongside KKR, Amit Kakar tells Secondaries Investor.

Apollo, Pantheon and SQ Capital co-lead on Exponent’s €750m CV

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

Infra’s single assets: From liquidity tool to access strategy

The single-asset secondaries market within infrastructure is blooming. However, discipline, alignment and entry valuations remain critical to ensuring buyers bag a good deal, writes Stafford’s William Greene.

Behind GP-leds’ banner H1 figures

Market volatility only tells part of the story of the GP-led market’s domination in the first six months of the year, with fundraising and expansion into new asset classes also driving growth.

The shorter the hold, the higher the burden

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