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.
DWS, which is understood to be in market with its debut fund, recently completed a deal involving Revelstoke Capital Partners portfolio company DataLink Software.
The preferred equity specialist says it closed transactions this year across Europe, North America and Asia from a total pipeline of around $20bn.
LGT Capital has now backed two of the largest GP-led deals in Asia this year, having participated in IDG Capital's yuan-to-dollar restructuring in September.
Demand among buyers and LPs’ desire to manage their portfolios in the wake of covid-19 point to healthy transaction secondaries volumes in the year ahead.
The Women in Secondaries network seeks to empower, promote and support women working in the industry.
More than 40% of LPs plan to revise their co-investment strategies in light of covid-19, with implications for the secondaries market.
Managing partner Daniel Benin discusses the firm's €1.6bn fundraise and how the new economy brought about by covid-19 will manifest in the secondaries market.
West coast-based Margaret McKnight had left the Carlyle Group real estate subsidiary in September last year after nearly 14 years.
ICG underwrote nearly half the transaction on Curium Pharma, an asset described as 'cream of the crop' by one secondaries buyer.
Sellers pushed on with secondaries sales despite the crisis and dealflow is likely to remain strong into December, according to Jared Barlow, a partner at the firm.