Staff Writer

Jeff Giller has now left the San Francisco-based secondaries shop after four years with the firm.

The direct VC secondaries firm has exited mobile payment business Macalla a year after making the investment.

The superannuation fund has made its first foray into secondaries with a commitment to Partners Group Secondary Fund 2008, which is targeting €2.5bn.

The Belgian firm has bought three ‘early secondary’ interests in CapMan funds, made one primary commitment and is eying a 10% stake in the management company.

The Swiss gatekeeper will manage the Korean sovereign wealth fund's nascent secondaries programme.

The promotion follows a first close on €61m for the international private equity firm’s sixth fund, which is targeting €200m. As head of finance at the direct secondaries firm, Meyel built the firm's management and control systems.

London-based 17Capital has inked its debut deal, providing €30m of mezzanine finance to Altamir Amboise, a French-listed vehicle linked to Apax Partners France.

The Singapore-based firm has hired Alex Sao-Wei Lee from secondaries specialist Coller Capital.

The French fund of funds platform – a captive of insurance group Allianz – has garnered €315m for Fund V and hopes for a final close by the end of the year.

In a ‘sign of the times’ PEI’s second annual Private Equity Leader award has gone to Jeremy Coller, whose firm manages one of the largest pools of capital in the secondaries market.