Adam Le
Adam Le is the News Editor for PEI Media's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Secondaries Investor as well as sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. 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.
Private equity sponsors may find themselves in need of capital due to the covid-19 crisis. Enter: the secondaries market.
The firm counts former TPG, Warburg Pincus, Partners Group and Accel Partners professionals among its staff and will take passive stakes in sports franchises.
Intriva Capital has held a first close on its sophomore fund which will target small to mid-market companies experiencing distress.
PEI caught up with two private equity recruiters to find out about the state of hiring during covid-19 and how the crisis is affecting salary expectations.
Vehicles such as HarbourVest Global Private Equity, Pantheon International and Neuberger Berman Private Equity Partners are trading at discounts as wide as 43%.
Whitehorse Liquidity Partners is a rising star of the preferred equity market, led by one of the industry’s most charismatic figures. What’s behind its success? A strategy treated as ‘genius’ by some and with wariness by others.
The firm is capital-raising across its Saturn, Genesis and Mercury vehicles.
David Larsen, a managing director at Duff & Phelps, says investors should seek guidance from their GPs as to likely discounts.
The coronavirus pandemic is one of multiple threats to manager-initiated deals, which accounted for around one-third of total secondaries market volume last year.
Dag Skattum, Europe head of the asset manager's Long Term Private Capital fund, says family- and privately owned companies are attracted to a more flexible type of capital.
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