Deals

Find out who’s buying, who’s selling and what is being sold. Get detailed information on the structures involved in secondaries deals, including LP portfolio sales, GP-led processes, spin-outs, restructurings and stapled deals.

HarbourVest runs $1bn-plus clean-up secondaries sale on older pools

Fund of funds sales represented the majority of LP transactions by asset managers last year, according to a recent full-year 2023 volume report.
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Aquiline closes CV, receives concurrent primary commitments to flagship fund

Secondaries investors in the $1.1bn continuation fund also committed to the firm's latest fund in market, which closed on more than $2.3bn.

San Fran’s Gryphon runs single-asset on Vessco Water

The single-asset continuation fund process is part of a wave of such deals GPs are attempting as a way to deliver proceeds to limited partners in older funds at a time of slow exit activity.
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Goldman seeds €1.4bn credit fund with Pantheon, Temasek backing

The strip sale is the latest example of an asset manager using the secondaries market to build third-party AUM.
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Vista eyes large-scale continuation fund for Cloud Software

The transaction is in the early stages and could reach $2bn in size, sources have told Secondaries Investor.
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Partners Group emerges as buyer on USS’s PE secondaries sale

The USS sale marks the latest sizeable LP-led portfolio that Partners Group has backed in recent months.
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Macquarie to launch secondaries advisory unit led by ex-APC exec

The financial giant has become the latest firm to get in on the growing GP-led advisory space.

Digital infra-focused SDC runs single-asset deal on dark-fibre company

Inventory on the GP-led side of the business is high and the completion rate for such deals is said to hover around 50%.
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Strategic Partners emerges as a buyer in Washington State portfolio sale

More LPs are considering secondaries sales as pricing has strengthened since last year, with high-quality buyout funds capturing pricing at the 90% or higher net asset value range.
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Glendower, Pantheon set to lead Astorg’s €1bn TIC deal

The European buyout firm is seeking more time and capital to further grow Normec internationally while crystallising returns for investors.
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