GP-Leds

It’s a chicken and egg scenario for manager-led transactions in a region that is several years behind Europe and North America.

The firm is currently in market raising its third dedicated secondaries fund.

Firms including HarbourVest Partners and Pantheon were looking at the deal which involved the firm's 2007-vintage $750m fund, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Shawn Winnie told Secondaries Investor he is leaving his position as a senior portfolio manager at the $65bn pension to provide advice to LPs free of charge.

Secondaries Investor recently caught up with Stephen Ziff, a London-based partner responsible for origination and execution, who shared his views on GP-led restructurings, investing its Fund VII and Brexit.

Gabriel Boghossian will lead a GP-led restructurings and direct secondaries practice at the law firm.

The investment bank has hired two managing directors and an associate for its illiquid financial assets unit to focus on balance sheet deleveraging.

The remaining assets in the real estate manager's 2006-vintage fund were moved into a new vehicle with Madison investing 20% of the new fund.

A model is emerging in the GP-led solutions market that can eliminate conflicts of interest, writes Evoco partner and co-founder Michel Galeazzi.

The mezzanine powerhouse has completed at least three deals from its latest secondaries fund which focuses on restructurings.