LP Sales

While the region has seen growing secondaries appetite in the past few years, executed deals remain far and few between, market participants tell PEI Secondaries Investor.

The proposed purchase would increase VPIC’s exposure to an existing manager while helping close its $27m farmland allocation shortfall.

The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Endowment is shopping a portfolio that is at least $1bn in size, PEI Secondaries Investor understands.

In respect of their longstanding infrastructure portfolios, Abu Dhabi Investment Council is a keen trader of secondaries but the Swedish insurer isn’t, explain infra specialists Saoud Al Mulla and Hans Forssman.

Focus is key when considering software exposure across both LP-leds and GP-leds, as valuations and exits for the sector remain uncertain, panellists said at the UK Private Capital Summit 2026.

After years of buying and selling secondaries as an allocator, Yangge Seaman believes that while institutional investors often have the appetite and capital to pursue deals, they aren’t able to follow through. Her new firm, Gordian Investment Group, aims to bridge that gap.

As buyers position themselves in the market, they need to ensure they have all the ‘whistles and bells’ to cater to sellers and investors, CVC Secondary Partners’ head, Carlo Pirzio-Biroli, tells PEI Secondaries Investor.

Endowments and foundations using outsourced investment offices increasingly view GP-led secondaries as a way to deploy capital more quickly into private markets, prioritising performance opportunities over liquidity concerns.

The new legislation will bring buyers’ offshore execution to an end, which under stamp duty came with its own grey areas in a digital age, Hogan Lovells Cadwalader’s Elliot Weston tells Secondaries Investor.

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