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 firm is seeking $425m for RCP Secondary Opportunity Fund III which will invest in US mid-market funds.
This is the second GP-led process carried out on Doughty Hanson IV, the first of which HarbourVest Partners backed in 2015.
A 'very aggressive fee proposal' helped put Campbell Lutyens in the final race for LACERA's $1bn-plus portfolio sale.
John Rife, who was named in Secondaries Investor's 2017 list of the most impressive industry professionals under 36, is one of five to make the step up at the firm.
The investment bank is seeking a director and associate director to join its New York-based private funds group, which has made hires from Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs in recent months.
The French private investment unit's plans include a €175m 'hybrid fund of funds' with secondaries and co-investment pockets.
The direct secondaries firm is targeting the amount it raised for its 2012-vintage previous fund.
Neel Mehta, a former finance director at Keyhaven Capital Partners, joins Mark McDonald and Daniel Green in the firm's secondaries team.
This is the second secondaries fund that HQ has closed in recent weeks, with Auda Asian Secondary Fund raising $250m.
Sven Lidén, who left the private equity firm after it was acquired by Schroders, has started his new role at the Swiss secondaries specialist.
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