Adam Le
Adam Le is Senior Editor, EMEA, for PEI Group's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor. 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.
The secondaries firm has brought in at least three investment professionals to its London office this year.
At least seven private equity firms have backed Core's latest fund, with some of the fresh capital raised being used to buy out stakes from its previous fund.
Kilian Toms is the second person to join Landmark's London office this year.
Despite some limitations and high valuations, the region is an attractive place to invest in direct secondaries.
From Basel III to AIFMD, the list of regulations is growing and the secondaries market is feeling their impact.
The Miami-based firm is adding to its European real estate assets in a direct secondaries deal involving Portuguese real estate and secured loan assets.
Secondaries funds had on average more undeployed capital as a percentage of capitalisation than any other strategy for vintage years 2007 to 2015, according to a TorreyCove report.
The asset management unit of the global banking firm has hired Alexander Frick to focus on secondaries investments out of its Geneva office.
Stakes in Macquarie's second European infrastructure fund have changed hands at least twice this year amid competitive pricing for infrastructure secondaries.
Over $44 billion of real estate assets will come to maturity in Asia in the next five years, fueling strong secondary deal flow, according to a Partners Group report.