Eye-watering legal charges have been likened to ‘racketeering’; industry co-operation could solve the problem.
'I can hand on heart say there has never been a deeper, more robust pipeline than the one that we have right now,' HarbourVest's Jeff Keay told Secondaries Investor on the back of its $15.1bn flagship raise.
A recent GP-led process that came across our desks suggests the collaborative nature of the secondaries market is alive and kicking – for now.
Despite a couple of pulled-transaction anomalies, secondaries sales are still seen as a powerful tool for rebalancing portfolios.
The inclusion of adjacent strategies such as GP stakes and portfolio financing in volume reports shows how what matters to secondaries market participants is evolving.
Stephenson Harwood's Gabriel Boghossian and Sarah de Ste Croix outline four main ways continuation funds in the real estate sector differ from their private equity cousins.
Evercore’s latest Secondaries Market Review paints a reassuring picture for the multiple new entrants to the venture secondaries market.
While it’s easy to point to liquidity constraints as an anomaly, the market believes secondaries’ record-breaking streak should continue.
There's a new type of entrant to the secondaries buyside, and it's not your typical buyout-come-secondaries firm.
The venture secondaries market is taking off, yet many GPs and LPs are still unfamiliar with how such transactions work.