Manager Strategy

Experts from Greenhill, NewQuest and LGT Capital Partners discuss what’s driving secondaries dealflow in Asia-Pacific this year.

With the launch of S3, Apollo becomes 'much more of a one-stop relationship' for GPs, co-president Scott Kleinman tells Secondaries Investor.

Robert Emerson joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where his clients included Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, Vista Equity Partners and Two Sigma.

Secondaries fundraising dipped 30 percent year-over-year in the first half, with $31.2 billion raised, according to preliminary data from Secondaries Investor.

Clearlake is among a host of firms exploring building out or bolting on secondaries platforms.

The asset manager, which has $170bn in alternatives AUM, is revisiting the strategy having last raised a dedicated secondaries fund in 2016.

The alternatives manager has already raised more than $1bn of capital to invest in senior debt secondaries through two May fund closes.

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.

GP-led activity is picking up thanks to a decline in exit activity during the pandemic and rising familiarity with the practice.