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.
The firm acquires portfolios of lower-mid market companies in the DACH area and often takes management control.
The process centred around star fintech asset Trustly and included backing from Investment Corporation of Dubai and Retirement System Investment Commission of South Carolina.
Here’s a taste of what senior market professionals had to say about the state of the secondaries market in sister publication PEI’s recent roundtable.
The niche secondaries specialist has tapped former JP Morgan and Gulf Capital executives for investment and IR roles, respectively.
The alternatives manager is targeting $2bn across a blindpool fund and SMAs.
The investment firm has acquired the PE team of Dutch asset manager Robeco and will seek €250m for its latest fund.
Secondaries funds are more exposed to individual companies than ever and will play a significant role in seeing them through the crisis.
Ardian UK head Olivier Decannière discusses ASF VIII, transaction leverage and where it plans to invest all its dry powder.
The firm's latest flagship secondaries fund, which is targeting $5.75bn, has already invested $1bn.
ASF VIII has raised $19bn in blindpool and co-investment commitments, making it the third-largest pool of PE capital yet raised.