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The Blackstone secondaries unit and Willowridge have both picked up stakes in Doughty Hanson's tail-end single-asset third fund.

SEC inspectors are reaching out directly to investors, asking about their interpretations of certain LPA items, according to panellists at the 2015 PE/VC Finance and Compliance Forum.

The London-based secondaries firm has picked up four stakes in two Carlyle European buyout funds, according to regulatory filings.

As interest in real estate secondaries grows, funds in market are targeting more than $210m dollars more compared with this time last year, according to PEI data.

The firm, which manages investments of non-profit organisations, hired Chris Anderson earlier in the summer to focus on secondaries and recently appointed Chris Willoughby as new CIO starting next week.

As restructurings and stapled deals become more mainstream, very large funds and Asian funds will provide more deal flow for such transactions, according to speakers at the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association Summit 2015 in London on Thursday.

The London-based secondaries firm appointed Clifford Meijer, who comes from Thomas Weisel Partners Group.

BAE Systems' pension fund achieved a high price for its stake in DeAWM-managed RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Fund, according to a source close to the deal.

The fund and Neuberger Berman will continue to have joint discretion on co-investments and secondaries investments for another 3 years starting in August 2016.

New OECD rules that would restrict interest payments being deducted against tax include an exemption for ‘public benefit projects’