Madeleine Farman
Madeleine Farman is a senior reporter for PEI Group’s Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor titles, based in London. Prior to joining PEI, she had covered private equity, private capital and advisers associated with the industry for other newsrooms and publications since 2016. Originally from New Zealand, Madeleine began her career in radio in Auckland.
Rather than wait out overallocation, LPs have headed to the secondaries market to continue their investments into private assets. The opportunities, however, far outstrip demand.
Ardian’s Wilfred Small and Arnaud Mercier speak with Secondaries Investor about Ardian's artificial intelligence platform and where AI's limitations are in private markets.
The SEC’s vote this week that makes third-party opinions in continuation fund transactions mandatory was a practice that was already becoming a market norm.
The survey, which compiled responses from 101 senior buyout, growth, private debt, VC, real estate and infrastructure executives globally, found that most GPs observed their LPs had interest in such options.
Crown Global Secondaries VI was launched a year ago, Secondaries Investor data shows.
Tail-end specialist Willowridge Partners closed its latest flagship, Amberbrook IX, on $900m earlier this month.
There were 15 $1bn-plus LP-led portfolios brought to market in the first half of 2023, and market participants anticipate more LPs will follow suit. How many transactions will get over the line?
Ahead of the release of affiliate title Private Equity International’s exclusive ranking of the biggest secondaries capital-raisers over the last five years, Secondaries Investor delves into the funds' performance.
The adviser has so far hired a team of four from Credit Suisse as it outlines changes to its newly branded private capital advisory unit.
Sixty percent of mega-buyers transacted on assets that generated a gross MOIC return of 3-4x, according to PJT Park Hill’s half-year report.