Secondaries

Until technology can provide the market with sufficiently standardized transaction templates, its progress will be accretive, not revolutionary

The departure of Jake Stuiver comes five months after that of Mike Custar, the founder of M2O's secondaries business.

GPs tend to like externally set pricing as it represents a market-based mark.

What was an exception is now mainstream, with buyers using leverage as bridging finance and to boost returns, according to Investec.

While initial secondaries volume estimates point to a record first half, expectations for full-year 2022 may have to be revised downward.

Sponsors or GP-led secondaries processes should take care in the language they use to explain why they want to hold an asset for longer, writes Thiha Tun, a partner at Dechert.

LP skepticism, co-investor grievances and a disregard for fairness opinions were some of the secondaries-related themes to emerge at last week’s CFO’s and COO’s Forum in New York.

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Certain types of deal may not require a fairness opinion, a case likely to be made to the regulator during the ongoing consultation period.

This largely institutional market has seen a spike in enquiries from family offices and high-net-worth individuals, according to speakers at the Fund Finance Association Symposium.