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The ingredients are all there for a big year in impact secondaries, with GP-leds looking particularly tempting.

The investment firm is managing $200m from HESTA in a fund of one to invest alongside impact and sustainable private equity managers.

The impact secondaries firm has hired a veteran of sustainable private equity investing in anticipation of 'a lot of selling activity' by institutional investors.

The amount of dry powder dedicated to impact secondaries increased markedly in 2022 – if from a very low base.

The VC and growth firm has established 10 sustainability goals, inspired by the UN SDGs, and in December published its first annual report on progress against these.

A GP-led secondaries deal by Energy Capital Partners hints at future opportunities.

Claire Hedley most recently led GSAM’s ESG client strategy group in London and was responsible for the asset manager’s client facing and commercial ESG efforts across EMEA.

The impact secondaries firm has shifted the focus of its clean growth strategy recently to preferred equity structured transactions from traditional LP interests.

Real estate could be the perfect asset class for GP-led secondaries, despite key legal and tax issues, says Steven Cowins, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig’s real estate fund practice.