Christopher Witkowsky

In the wake of secondaries’ chief Nigel Dawn’s decision to leave the bank, UBS has named two co-heads to run the business.

Nigel Dawn, who has helped lead the secondary advisory operation at UBS, will step down by the end of July.

Former PineBridge Investments head of European secondaries Pablo Calo has joined the Blackstone affiliate to run secondary advisory work from London for clients across Europe.

The retirement system has hired Park Hill, Cogent and UBS for an advisory ‘bullpen’ to be called on as and when needed.

The bank has been raising its sixth secondary fund since last year, targeting $5bn.

Barry Miller will take on a new role with Landmark Partners in early June after more than two years running the NYC system’s massive private equity portfolio.

The bank’s Customized Fund Investment Group wants to hire a senior-level secondary executive in the wake of the bank’s sale of its secondaries platform, Strategic Partners.

Partner Erwin Roex has moved into a senior advisor role, adding to Coller's recent personnel shifts, including the departure of high-level New York executive Jonathan Gutstein.

Andrew Caspersen will focus on the growing need of GPs to restructure aging funds that are approaching the end of their lives.

Harvey Lambert, head of the firm’s secondaries group, left in December. A second high-ranking secondaries executive, Kennon Koay, left around the same time.