Rod James
Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
Two London-based executives will join in the second quarter of this year to lead a practice focused on GP-led transactions.
Caroline Gibert's team aims to have women account for 40% of Flexstone's investment team by 2030 and for the business to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Record volumes, lots of new entrants and GP-led deals with a little more 'hair on them' are among trends to look out for this year, according to industry leaders.
Debevoise & Plimpton worked on $9.7bn of secondaries transactions in 2019, all in private equity, according to Secondaries Investor's latest legal survey.
The niche secondaries firm has raised nearly 60% more for Fund V than the amount raised for its 2017-vintage predecessor.
The consumer-focused buyout shop received a direct bid for frozen food business Picard, which some LPs viewed as a better option.
AIMCO invested €400m of equity in the deal centered around Aurelis Real Estate, a leading Germany-based light industrial real estate company.
The world's largest asset manager expects to hold the final close on its debut secondaries fund in Q1 2021.
Nordea Private Equity's secondaries fund is managed by Christen Estrup and former Partners Group executive Julien Marencic.
The Carlyle subsidiary has hit the hard-cap on ASP VII and raised $1.2bn for co-investments, with support of LPs such as the California Public Employees' Retirement System.