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.
Secondaries Investor examines the transactions that caught the eye over the last 12 months.
The listed private equity fund sold the $218m portfolio after a majority of shareholders said they no longer wanted to invest.
The fund has been in the market since the summer of 2015, according to data from PEI.
Deals linked to Asia-Pacific made headlines in a year when deal volume and fundraising in the region flatlined.
Secondaries outstripped the All Funds benchmark over a quarterly period, according to data from the LP association.
A handful of big-name deals pushed GP-led processes into the mainstream in 2017, but questions around their planning and execution will dominate discourse going into 2018.
The real estate and private equity secondaries firm has raised at least $2.4bn for Landmark Real Estate Partners VIII.
The firm is likely to launch a fund in the second half of 2018 spurred on by the bright outlook for the European VC market.
The investment firm acquired stakes in Cinven's 2006-vintage flagship fund which holds UK financial advisor Just Group and German truck component maker JOST.
Despite buoyant fundraising, the number of LPs actively investing in secondaries funds fell from last year, according to a survey by Probitas Partners.
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