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Coller targets $5bn for Fund VIThe secondaries specialist has joined peers AXA and Lexington on the fundraising trail as it tries to match its 2007 fundraising total.
- Secondaries get complicated
A combination of financial distress and increased regulation in the West and the maturation of the primary fund market in the East are leading Asia’s secondary market to more complex deal structures. Secondary directs feature, but so too do more Asia-specific transactions, writes Jenny Blinch.
- HPEA completes spin-out, re-emerges as Headland
The management buyout of HSBC Private Equity (Asia) completed Tuesday. Some 16 professionals have joined new firm Headland Capital Partners.
- Realisation of former BOSIF portfolio begins
Cavendish Square Partners, the Coller-backed owner of the former Bank of Scotland Integrated Finance private equity portfolio, has begun divesting its assets with the £450m sale of Vue Cinemas to London-based Doughty Hanson.
- Through the eye of the storm
Lynn Fordham, who took over as chief executive officer of SVG Capital in April last year, is no stranger to complex restructuring jobs. Toby Mitchenall met with her, SVG’s IR head Alice Kain and global head of investments Sam Robinson to discuss the company’s frantic recent past and uncertain future.
- Breaking through the barrier
After a lacklustre 2009, the secondaries market is marking a return to (booming) business as usual.
- 17Capital closes debut fund on €88m
The London-based secondaries investor is targeting European transactions between €5m and €50m.
- Privately Speaking: Standard bearer
Edinburgh-based SL Capital Partners' David Currie discusses what comes next for the industry and the firm.
- Regulation gold rush?
Incoming regulations on both sides of the Atlantic are expected to fuel a global secondaries bonanza. Nicholas Donato and Toby Mitchenall ask whether the hype is justified.
- Marathon of Marathons: €1m pledged - help us to €2.5m goal!
As the focus switches from a highly successful runner recruitment campaign to fundraising, we are delighted to report that the groundbreaking Marathon of Marathons – organised by Campbell Lutyens, PEI Media and UNICEF - has already sprinted past an incredible €1 MILLION of donations. How can you be part of the private equity industries’ most important fundraise of 2010?