direct secondaries

The firm is selling special metals services provider Scanacon Intressenter, which it acquired in 2012 through a take-private deal.

This year’s list welcomes a fresh spin-out, a direct secondaries player and niche specialists.

The UK’s Electra Private Equity may have ended its search for a buyer, but its five remaining assets remain in play. Will anyone be brave enough to buy them?

The Carlyle unit becomes the first outside investor in a group launched by a former Microsoft executive and strategist for Bill Clinton.

This rare breed of secondaries player could help push tricky fund recapitalisations over the line.

The secondaries firm has backed the acquisition of a minority stake in a US medical billing company.

The secondaries firm has provided direct secondaries buyer Compass Partners with €100m to acquire a mix of minority and majority stakes in three assets.

Second Alpha Partners IV, which was in market for 15 months, has already invested in technology and media targets.

The firm, founded by former Industry Ventures partner Jim Jones, counts streaming service Pandora among its investments.

Leerink Revelation Partners, which can by direct stakes and take positions in healthcare funds, has nearly $400m under management.