Madeleine Farman
Madeleine Farman is a senior reporter for PEI Group’s Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor titles, based in London. Prior to joining PEI, she had covered private equity, private capital and advisers associated with the industry for other newsrooms and publications since 2016. Originally from New Zealand, Madeleine began her career in radio in Auckland.
While impact secondaries transactions remain a relatively small part of overall secondaries volume, these vehicles can offer more certainty around impact-linked growth stories compared with their blind-pool counterparts.
Iron Road Partners’ Igor Rozenblit – former co-head of the SEC's private funds unit – details concerns and red flags the regulator will be looking for following the passing of its private market rules last year.
In episode five of the Decade of Secondaries Investing podcast miniseries, Iron Road Partners’ Igor Rozenblit and Ropes & Gray’s Isabel Dische discuss the regulatory landscape facing secondaries and analyse which rules are set to have the biggest impact.
Headway has raised €627m for its latest flagship Headway Investment Partners V, surpassing its €500m target.
The transaction involves five assets coming from three vehicles managed by the Jordan Company, Secondaries Investor understands.
The momentum on Fund VIII, which is targeting north of $10bn, is aiding its private equity secondaries vehicle targeting private wealth investors, according to chief executive Harvey Schwartz.
In this third episode of the Decade of Secondaries Investing miniseries, Goldman's Harold Hope and Lazard's Holcombe Green discuss how continuation fund technology has developed to facilitate single-asset continuation funds and the runway for further growth.
Manulife Investment Management’s GP-led secondaries programme will seek out concentrated deals from the large-cap space through to the lower mid-market.
Capital raising for private equity secondaries strategies plummeted 77% year-on-year for the three months to end-March, according to PEI data.
The SEC’s decision to grant Coller Capital and Pantheon permission to shop their secondaries-focused evergreen vehicles to high-net-worth investors could prompt more players to follow suit.