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 takes a look at some of the most interesting transactions over the last 12 months.
After several bumper deals in 2018, what will next year hold for the region?
The allows Access to remain independent and gives Alantra access to funds of funds, secondaries and co-investment capabilities.
San Francisco-based Kevin Dunwoodie has been made partner, one of two to make the step up in this round of promotions.
The stakes were sold by a mature fund of funds vehicle and were in vehicles managed by EQT, BC Partners and other big names.
Secondaries head Ted Craig has been promoted to the top spot while fellow managing partner Eamon Devlin moves to Zurich.
Strategic Equity Fund III, which focuses on complex end-of-life secondaries processes, launched in April targeting $1.6bn.
Partners Group was among a consortium of buyers that joined Lexington Partners in acquiring stakes in two of TPG's Asia funds and committed to Asia Fund VII.
The US pension has committed $150m to each of the firms' latest private equity funds and is also considering buying and selling on the secondaries market.
SOF IV is targeting $100m more than its predecessor and has a 10% hurdle rate, according to documents prepared for a US pension.
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