There is growing speculation that secondaries trading could surpass primary fundraising, as it has in the public markets, write Rod James and Amy Carroll.
10 min read · 18 May 2022
The preferred equity and NAV lending specialist agreed to be acquired by Oaktree in March and closed its debut fund dedicated to NAV-backed lending in April.
1 min read · 12 May 2022
LP scepticism, co-investors’ grievances and a disregard for fairness opinions were some of the secondaries-related themes to emerge at last week’s CFOs and COOs Forum in New York.
3 min read · 05 May 2022
London-based Oliver Marcuse has worked on GP-led processes involving Mid Europa Partners and Arcus, as well as portfolio sales for LPs such as abrdn.
1 min read · 04 May 2022
The firm has been building out its EMEA secondaries firepower in recent months with hires from Kirkland & Ellis and now Fried Frank.
1 min read · 28 April 2022
Investing in GP-led continuation vehicles is an entirely different business to traditional LP secondaries, say Matt Jones and Michael Woolhouse at TPG GP Solutions.
7 min read · 26 April 2022
The firm, which raised €2.6bn this week for its debut lending fund, is agnostic about whether it’s viewed via a preferred equity or credit lens.
3 min read · 21 April 2022
The GP-led secondaries market continues to benefit from innovation and shows no signs of slowing down, say Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partners in this sponsored Q&A.
7 min read · 21 April 2022
Innovative multi-asset transactions and deals that offer broad sector exposure are likely to be on the continuation fund menu this year, say Jeremy Duksin and Jonathan Abecassis in this sponsored Q&A.
5 min read · 20 April 2022
