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Adam Le

Adam Le is Senior Editor, EMEA, for PEI Group's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor. Based in London, Adam works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI's offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Prior to PEI, his roles included reporting on finance and technology for Bloomberg Japan.
Some of the industry’s biggest names gathered in London last week for a panel organised by law firm Proskauer. Secondaries Investor can bring you the inside track from the closed event.
The French banking group's latest fund of funds will split its deals evenly between secondaries and primary investments.
The private equity and infrastructure investment firm has hired Michael Bowen to focus on direct secondaries and co-investments.
Returns for secondaries fell across both quarterly and yearly comparisons and were lower than the benchmark index for all strategies, according to data from the Institutional Limited Partners Association.
The fund of funds manager's fifth dedicated secondaries fund will target opportunities in the smaller end of the market.
The state's Board of Investments sold stakes in two private equity funds at a premium to NAV and did not use an advisor, meeting minutes show.
The deal was part of the US's largest public pension's $2.7bn portfolio sale which is yet to completely close, Secondaries Investor has learned.
The target is the highest-ever sought for a vehicle dedicated to secondaries in the asset class.
The Californian pension wants to hire funds of funds managers to help it invest $150m each year until 2018 and is interested in secondaries.
Exit sign - iStock
Weak IPO and M&A activity in Q3 will lead to average high bids falling by as much as 9 percentage points, according to a report obtained exclusively by Secondaries Investor.
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