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.
The lower- and mid-market-focused firm had hired Greenhill Cogent to work on a tender offer process on its 2009-vintage fund, Secondaries Investor has learned.
The Canadian investor had brought a portfolio of private equity fund stakes to market in the first half of this year.
The deal involved mature stakes in Ardian's 2010-vintage AXA Secondary Fund V, Secondaries Investor has learned.
This is at least the second mandate this year from the $4bn Boston Retirement System, which wants to hire a manager to help it invest in strategies including secondaries.
Advent, Apollo and Carlyle round out the top of Setter Capital's most sought-after managers list.
The firm is putting together a 10-strong secondaries team, split between London and New York, to focus on vanilla deals as well as more complex processes.
Investments made by the firm's $2.7bn fund reveal high exposure to growth capital and China, according to its interim results.
Cipio Partners' Roland Dennert discusses the kind of deals he is seeing, the problem with unicorns and how a maturing tech industry is likely to mean larger funds in future.
The French private equity firm has sold a tail-end interest in a Norwegian buyout fund on the back of a portfolio sale to Finland's eQ.
The Latin America-focused private equity firm is working with Park Hill on a potential process, Secondaries Investor has learned.
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