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 is seeking a mid-senior professional as it invests its fifth fund, which closed last year on $220m.
The secondaries unit of Rothschild Merchant Banking Group beat its €700m target for FASO V.
Solaiman Zein's appointment as vice-president follows that of Philip Viergutz, formerly of AlpInvest Partners, as a partner in October.
Secondaries Investor reported in August that the VC-focused firm was targeting $600m for Fund IV, an 85% increase on the amount sought by its predecessor.
Funds of funds outperformed secondaries by cash-on-cash returns in all but the four most recent vintage years, according to research by Wellershoff & Partners.
Hollyport Secondary Opportunities VII has raised double the amount collected by its 2017-vintage predecessor.
Preferred equity and real estate find a place among the largest secondaries fundraises of the year.
PAI Partners and Norinchukin Bank are among parties that feature in our list of eye-catching transactions of the year.
The second installment in our series on disruption looks at Collective Equity Ownership, which offers an alternative to the direct secondaries market.
The VC secondaries specialist has promoted Ira Simkhovitch and Amir Malayery to managing director.