LPs

The consumer-focused buyout shop received a direct bid for frozen food business Picard, which some LPs viewed as a better option.

AIMCO invested €400m of equity in the deal centered around Aurelis Real Estate, a leading Germany-based light industrial real estate company.

Managing partner Daniel Benin discusses the firm's €1.6bn fundraise and how the new economy brought about by covid-19 will manifest in the secondaries market.

ICG underwrote nearly half the transaction on Curium Pharma, an asset described as 'cream of the crop' by one secondaries buyer.

London CIV, formed through the pooling of 32 London Local Authority Pension Funds, is set to launch a series of private market investment funds.

Medical devices business Confluent accounted for a majority of NAV in a transaction involving Ampersand Capital Partners.

The Canadian pension giant is rebuilding following the departures of group head Michael Woolhouse and European lead Nik Morandi.

Representatives from AlpInvest Partners, NYCRS and the UK's Nest pension fund say it is only when GPs play their part in tackling climate change that LPs can make their portfolios resilient.

The secondaries market is more seller-friendly than ever, allowing sponsors to push terms that surprise even seasoned pros. This is unlikely to last.

This is the second GP-led process that HarbourVest has led on a Portobello fund, after the 2015 restructuring of 2006-vintage Fund II.