Managers

Flynn is known as a mentor of sorts in the LP world, having helped younger LPs grow into their careers as fund investors.

The deal will free up liquidity for existing investors, while allowing a new group of investors to gain exposure across three Eurazeo vehicles consisting of senior and subordinated debt and equity.

We asked the managing director a few personal questions regarding what he does with his spare time when he's not working the private equity salt mines.

The deal is one of numerous single-asset processes to close around the end of the year that helped drive secondaries activity to what are expected to be record levels in 2021.

We asked the senior managing director a few personal questions regarding what she's reading, career paths and learning a new instrument.

As managers set out to establish their own practices, sophisticated LPs have a potential once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to identify and invest in a select few who will define the next generation of private equity.

A host of potential entrants to the double-digit fund club, a raft of fund closes below target and an influx of Indian investment are on the cards in the year ahead.

Will dealmaking roar on or will GPs instead exercise restraint? Will vigorous fundraising continue or will LPs pull back? And how will the industry manage a full agenda of pressing issues, including everything from ESG to transparency?

The target is more than triple that of Fund V’s predecessor, which sought $350m, and almost triple the $420m brought in by Fund IV in a final close last year.