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 fund will invest in assets acquired by 2019-vintage Insight Venture Partners XI, following the launch in 2021 of a vehicle targeting Fund X investments.
BlackRock has reorganised its team as it pushes ahead with fundraising following the departure of three MDs to Apollo last month.
Oliver Gardey and Ryan Levitt discuss market volatility, the need for specialism in secondaries and the likely drivers of LP deals in 2022.
The Greenwich-headquartered secondaries buyer has been expanding quickly, making three MD appointments in the space of a year.
The preferred equity and NAV lending specialist agreed to be acquired by Oaktree in March and closed its debut fund dedicated to NAV-backed lending in April.
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LP scepticism, co-investors’ grievances and a disregard for fairness opinions were some of the secondaries-related themes to emerge at last week’s CFOs and COOs Forum in New York.