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Under the hood of CLSA’s first direct secondaries platform

Hong Kong-based CLSA is seeking up to $100m from the likes of HNWIs and wealth managers to build a portfolio of pre-IPO tech unicorns, sister title Secondaries Investor understands.

2 min read · 23 July 2020

ILPA releases deal-by-deal model LPA, term sheet

The organisation hopes to spark debate with its new deal-by-deal model LPA, which incorporates recent changes to its whole-of-fund model LPA. Sister title Private Funds CFO spoke with some of the people who developed it ahead of the LPA’s release.

5 min read · 23 July 2020

OpenGate, investing Fund II in downturn, loses veteran partner

Prior to joining OpenGate in 2012, Sebastien Kiekert Le Moult was chief executive of Syntagma Group, an industrial holding company with investments in Europe and Brazil.

2 min read · 22 July 2020

OMERS veteran Jon McCarthy launches growth equity shop, eyes $300m debut fund

Venn Growth Partners, launched earlier in 2020 by McCarthy and Chris Reynolds, is expected to soon bring on a third founding partner, a source told Buyouts.

2 min read · 22 July 2020

Side Letter: Apax bounce-back, Carlyle's Youngkin, HarbourVest's Espinal's summer reading

Looking at Apax's fund valuations, you'd think the covid-19 crisis is over. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

3 min read · 22 July 2020

Investment bank seeks to crack China's exit problem with debut PE fund

Lighthouse Capital serves as financial advisor to private placements across 13 sectors and reserves investment rights to participate in up to 10 percent of each deal.

2 min read · 22 July 2020

Goldman one of several anchors in $1.1bn Riverstone single-asset process

The deal is one of only a few that have proceeded through the pandemic downturn, which otherwise has stopped most secondaries deal activity.

2 min read · 22 July 2020

What will the US's DC market look like in the near term?

Recent guidance from the US Department of Labor opens up private equity investment to 401(k) plan sponsors, but it's unlikely the market will see a flood of such capital any time soon.

3 min read · 22 July 2020

EMPEA chief: Private capital doesn’t stop

Cate Ambrose, chief executive of the industry association, discusses why the pandemic and increasing political isolationism underscores the need for more private capital in emerging markets.

3 min read · 22 July 2020

DOWNLOAD: Half-year fundraising remains unchanged despite lockdown

Private equity funds gathered $241bn through June, a marginal increase from $233.7bn during the same period last year.

1 min read · 22 July 2020

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