Preferred equity

The preferred equity specialist has raised $7.5bn and grown its headcount to 85 since it was founded in 2015.

Yann Robard, Whitehorse Liquidity Partners’ founder, says his prediction by 2030 is perhaps a conservative estimate.

Pauline Chatin joins from Lyxor Asset Management, where she covered French institutional LPs and led fundraising on several products.

Asia's first 'decacorn', Grab, was among assets moved into a continuation vehicle as part of the process run by Vertex Holdings.

Portfolio finance can offer an attractive alternative to fund defensive and offensive strategies, says the firm's managing partner Pierre-Antoine de Selancy.

The preferred equity specialist says it closed transactions this year across Europe, North America and Asia from a total pipeline of around $20bn.

The firm has added 29 staff this year, including two from British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Citco Canada.

The pandemic may not have triggered a wave of secondaries buying opportunities, but the effects of the coronavirus are manifesting themselves in subtle and significant ways.

The appointment of Myriam Vander Elst follows that of an ex-Wells Fargo subscription finance executive in May.

The investment comes from Goldman's Vintage Real Estate Partners II, which closed in May on $2.75bn.