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Integrating AI into businesses in the professional services sector offers untold opportunities, but also raises challenges, say Cinven’s Stuart Walker and Grant Thornton UK’s Malcolm Gomersall.

Value creation efforts that capture the benefits of AI are particularly effective in services and healthcare businesses, say Permira’s Riccardo Basile and Ben Rogers.

PE firms must embrace AI to avoid obsolescence and build sustainable competitive advantages, argue Gavin Geminder and Cherie Gartner of KPMG.

Information inefficiencies within the mid-market offer an abundance of opportunities for those with a differentiated platform, says Shane Feeney, global head of secondaries at Northleaf Capital Partners.

The increased complexity and scale of the secondaries industry has necessitated a more rigorous and tech-supported approach to data management, says Metz Vara, global head of fund of funds and LPs at Aztec Group.

At the midway point of 2025, the secondaries market is experiencing both dynamic shifts and rapid growth. Ropes & Gray partner Isabel Dische asks HarbourVest’s Dominic Goh, Edward Holdsworth and Mike Pugatch for their outlook.

Opportunities are continuing to develop across multiple asset classes as the secondaries market matures, says Jonathan Costello, founder and managing partner of Devon Park Advisors.

Innovation is continuing apace as the secondaries space matures, says Sabina Sammartino, managing director at DC Advisory.

Continuation vehicles are constantly developing as key tools for GPs and LPs alike, say Stephanie Pindyck-Costantino and P Thao Le at Troutman Pepper Locke.

Buyout activity levels in the secondaries market are underpinned by several structural growth trends, say Carlos Gazulla and Inés de Soto, partners in the private equity team at AltamarCAM Partners.