Madeleine Farman
Madeleine Farman is the editor of PEI Group’s Secondaries Investor title 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.
The investment bank is the latest adviser to tap peers for secondaries talent, with Moelis hiring Matt Wesley from Jefferies this year.
Montana Capital Partners acquired the interests via a strip sale which it then transferred over to a new vehicle managed by Prudential Financial.
The single-asset process will allow the firm to hold onto a software company which was part of a multi-asset deal it ran in 2019, Secondaries Investor has learned.
HarbourVest and Goldman Sachs are understood to be the lead buyers on the multi-asset continuation fund and a single-asset continuation fund, respectively.
New Mountain Capital has been been communicating with LPs about the formalisation of its CV strategy in recent months.
Devrup Banerjee will spend the bulk of his time advising on GP-led deals at the Mizuho-owned investment bank, Secondaries Investor understands.
Conference-goers at the BVCA’s secondaries conference this week mulled over the market’s future, with bifurcation at the heart of some predictions.
A number of large-scale LP-led deals have moved through the secondaries market in recent years yielding good outcomes for sellers, William Blair director Jake Stuiver said in a video interview at NEXUS 2025.
Nicolas Lanel, who headed European secondaries advisory at Evercore and UBS before founding Flow Advisors, will support the private capital unit’s development in Europe, Secondaries Investor has learned.
Some LPs are thrilled with the options being offered amid rising portfolio sale activity, while others are less receptive.