Secondaries

The mega-firm has added on a 600,000-hectare cattle ranch in North Queensland to its Consolidated Pastoral platform in an all-equity deal worth A$48m.

The secondaries specialist is working with several institutions on preferred annex fund-type structures that help LPs to meet capital calls and make fresh commitments.

Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.

The Southern European buy-and-build specialist is giving LPs greater control over investments made by the fund, illustrating the concessions necessary to raise an annex fund in today's market.

The listed private equity firm has brought new investment to a standstill and made significant inroads into its debt pile.

With LP defaults becoming a more common occurrence, GPs need to understand all the implications for the management company, the fund and other investors. Jennifer Harris explores the issues

Investors in private equity funds believe one-quarter of private equity managers will fail because of the financial meltdown, and one out of every 10 investors in private equity will default on capital calls, according to recent surveys.

We recently hosted an elegant black-tie dinner at London's Victoria & Albert Museum in honour of the winners of the 2008 Private Equity International Awards. Jeremy Coller, the founder and chief executive of secondaries firm Coller Capital, collected the second annual PEI Private Equity Leader award.

In a ‘sign of the times’ PEI’s second annual Private Equity Leader award has gone to Jeremy Coller, whose firm manages one of the largest pools of capital in the secondaries market.

Net asset values will decline more over the next few quarters, brining allocations back into balance, according to a white paper published by the secondaries specialist.