Chelsea Stevenson
James Clarke has joined the firm as a director, weeks after Emily-Jane Finigan joined as a vice-president.
The Cogent team is expected to benefit from Greenhill’s relationships with institutional investors, particularly in the real estate sector.
The amount of unrealised value in tail-end funds will reach $337bn by 2017, according to a report from Credit Suisse.
Limited partners have mixed sentiments toward solutions to tail-end fund situations, according to a survey conducted by the Credit Suisse Private Fund Group.
Jack Foster has joined the firm as a managing director and private equity specialist focused on institutional investors in the Eastern US and Canada.
Andrew Levy will leave Newbury in a few weeks to join a large international bank to focus on co-investments.
2014 was the year of high priced fund books and cheap leverage, Coller Capital chief investment officer Tim Jones said.
The bulk of the capital, roughly $22bn, is being raised by private equity secondaries funds, PEI data disclosed.
Kevin Warn-Schindel will lead the firm’s primary and secondary investments across energy, infrastructure, natural resources and real estate.
Financial institutions generated 34 percent of total secondaries deal volume in 2014, according to Cogent.