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Adam Le is Senior Editor, EMEA, for PEI Group's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor. Based in London, Adam works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI's offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Prior to PEI, his roles included reporting on finance and technology for Bloomberg Japan.
In this second episode of our miniseries Private Markets and the End of Cheap Money, we talk to LPs about allocation shifts, impacts on fundraising and what investors are looking for out of their GPs as rates rise.
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Alex Mejia is joining Baird, less than 18 months after joining Goldman to advise on single- and double-asset GP-led deals.
The $46bn medical research endowment wants to be aligned with GPs who roll over and compound their exposure to assets rather than those who sell down, Robert Coke, head of buyout and residential property, tells PEI.
A lack of transparency in GP-led deals can backfire on general partners, says former ILPA chairman and CalPERS veteran Joncarlo Mark.
The secondaries community should take note of investors’ annoyance at unreasonable deadlines and the amount of work needed to make decisions on these deals.
UK head Olivier Decannière and former US head Benoît Verbrugghe are among those not listed as key people on the secondaries giant's ASF IX fund, which is seeking $15bn.
A wave of GP-led activity helped buoy the secondaries market last year. Now, co-GP relationships and sponsors of all shapes and sizes using secondaries capital are just around the corner.
Competing sources of capital and a strategy yet to be untested during a downturn pose challenges for long-hold fundraisings.
Portfolio Advisors is expanding its secondaries offerings with the launch of a dedicated fund focusing on GP-led restructurings. Stephen Sloan, who joined the firm last month having been private capital advisory head at Greenhill, will co-lead the effort.
The UK mid-market buyout firm has been working with advisor Goldman Sachs on securing financing for its 2015-vintage fund.
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