Commentary

Top executives from Campbell Lutyens, Evercore, Lazard and PJT Partners shared their views for Kirkland & Ellis's liquidity masterclass this week.

Bpifrance's innovative strip sale is the latest example of how secondaries technology can be used to help open up private equity to the public.

Clarity on withholding tax issues for non-US investors means secondaries trades can now be conducted with greater ease, write Macfarlanes’ James McCredie and Florence Barnes.

Negative headlines are causing some LPs to review their relationships with Vista Equity Partners and Apollo Global Management. This has implications for the secondaries market.

Elliot Weston, head of UK Tax and partner at Hogan Lovells, lays out the effects on buyers and sellers of LP fund stakes and what to expect from the proposed changes to stamp duty.

It feels like there is a sea-change in the secondaries advisory market. We ain’t seen nothing yet.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board's recent transaction shows that even at a time of considerable economic uncertainty, big, diversified portfolios can sell – and at a good price.

The pandemic may not have triggered a wave of secondaries buying opportunities, but the effects of the coronavirus are manifesting themselves in subtle and significant ways.

This week Secondaries Investor moderated a panel on the debt secondaries market hosted by sister publication Private Debt Investor. Here is what we learned from the discussion featuring executives from Manulife Investment Management, Tikehau Capital and Pantheon.