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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 secondaries firms backed a deal that moved Orix Capital Partners' portfolio into a new vehicle, allowing new investors.
The rise of the single-asset fund restructuring shows a maturing secondaries market.
Private equity and real estate secondaries funds raised $12.7bn in the first half, an almost 50% drop year-on-year.
The secondaries buyers invested $325m to back the spin-out of Aretex along with a portfolio of three assets.
The interdealer broker's secondaries team will consolidate with its debt solutions team under new management.
The firm's fifth hybrid fund, which can buy early-stage secondaries stakes, brings total assets under management to $3.4bn.
The firm, founded by former Industry Ventures partner Jim Jones, counts streaming service Pandora among its investments.
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The bank's private capital advisory team will focus on deals including fund restructurings and portfolio sales.
The firm led a group of investors who bought some of the remaining NAV in Lime Rock's 2006-vintage energy fund.
Built-in liquidity solutions or asset rollovers will soon take care of ageing funds.
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