The investment bank has hired an executive director and vice-president, both based in London, Secondaries Investor has learned.
The firm, which has opened an office in Hong Kong, closed at least five such transactions in the region this year, according to Jason Yao, head of Greater China.
Aqualis Partners is looking to take advantage of the growing and increasingly attractive small-cap market.
The small buyout specialist's latest secondaries vehicle surpassed its $1bn target and will invest in both LP- and GP-leds.
Hans Swildens weighs in on Industry's sale to Goldman Sachs, who the most active sellers in the venture secondaries market are, the current NAV discount for venture assets and more.
Speaking at the CAIS Alternative Investment Summit last week, executives from both firms agreed asset quality has become a more important driver of returns.
Unrealised NAV sitting in PE funds will 'get bigger over the next five years before it shrinks', according to the firm's president Wil Warren.
SQ Capital was the lead buyer of the $160m CV for portfolio company TeamDynamix, understood to have been run in an off-market deal with no bankers involved.
The Toronto-based opening comes a year after the launch of Coller's Montreal office.
There is now proof of concept that institutional and retail products can successfully be managed side by side, say Davis Polk’s Andrew Ahern, Oran Ebel, Christopher Healey and Leor Landa.