Fundraising

Secondaries-focused PA Capital joined forces with New York Life’s private equity affiliate GoldPoint Partners and lender Madison Capital Funding, rebranding as Apogem Capital in April.

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

ICG Strategic Equity IV has beaten its target after just a year and a half in market, Secondaries Investor understands.

The Chicago-based manager will target opportunities where it has an informational advantage that allows it to profit from 'value arbitrage', according to secondaries head Jeff Akers.

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

The fund will continue with ISF's focus on acquisitions of holdings in private companies and venture capital funds.

Pomona X, which launched in 2020, is around 37% larger than its predecessor and the firm's first multi-billion dollar fund.

Unigestion is also understood to have participated in the transaction involving digital transformation services provider Init.

The firm is understood to have refined the types of secondaries transactions it will target to those owned by an owner-operator.

The New York-headquartered manager’s latest vehicle also marks its first dedicated secondaries vehicle with an opportunistic risk-return profile.