Rod James
Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
Imene Boumalala, a more than decade-long veteran of Neuberger, joins the firm as it eyes returning to market with its latest strategic secondaries fund.
Marc Wursdorfer spent 15 years at Credit Suisse, where he was responsible for primary capital raising in the Nordic region and sourcing secondaries deals.
The veteran will continue as head of direct funds as four executives take up their places on the committee.
Record volumes, high prices and the growing popularity of VC funds are among the trends outlined in recent reports from the secondaries advisors.
The firm is improving its ability to execute opportunistic secondaries transactions, Secondaries Investor understands.
The fund, which was targeting $1bn, includes El Paso City Employees' Pension Fund, according to PEI data.
Altamar is aiming to lock in attractive prices by offloading stakes in funds managed by PAI, BC Partners and 3i, among others.
Transaction volumes hit $54bn, with around 70% accounted for by funds of more than $4bn in size.
The corporate advisory firm moved into secondaries in June 2016 and is looking to do deals across Europe, North America and Asia.
Dominik Woessner will be based in Singapore, where he spent 10 years in Greenhill Cogent's Asian secondaries advisory team.
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