GP-Leds

Deals linked to Asia-Pacific made headlines in a year when deal volume and fundraising in the region flatlined.

Large GP-led infrastructure deals and an encouraging year ahead for real estate mean the picture for real assets looks bright.

The investment firm will retain either an asset management or advisory role at each of the companies and projects in the eight-strong European portfolio.

Desi Co, co-founder of advisory business Accord Group, explains why some secondaries investors are offering real estate managers a chance to keep their properties through non-traditional deals.

The strategy is an increasingly popular way of refreshing global private equity exposure in the region, and buyers need to be savvy about the terrain, writes Atlantic-Pacific Capital’s Charles Wan.

Expectations of a change in market conditions during and the funds trading at discounts have led to their popularity, according to Asante Capital Group.

The deal involves five European renewable and concession-based assets from the infrastructure manager's first fund.

Headway Capital Partners’ Christiaan de Lint says his firm, with its knack for direct secondaries, relishes ‘handling deals that other secondaries buyers don’t like’.

Primary and secondaries market players are keeping a keen eye on the process involving the firm's €4.3bn 2008-vintage fund.

Some LPs are feeling betrayed in fund restructurings because GPs are having to choose who they serve, the firm's senior investment manager said.