Staff Writer
The South Korean secondaries fund will invest in private equity and special situation portfolios in South Korea and Asia Pacific.
Pantheon International Participations has seen its net asset value grow by more than 20 percent in the last year. Current market conditions are causing the fund to shift focus nearly exclusively to the booming secondaries market.
The promotions of Brett Gordon, Alex Rogers and John Toomey brings to 20 the firm’s total number of managing directors worldwide, with five focused on the firm’s secondaries business and four working on direct investments.
The London- and Paris-based secondaries shop has closed its latest fund and is looking forward to the ‘attractive opportunity’ for the secondaries market caused by credit market dislocation.
The UK technology secondaries specialist will become the new manager of the €36m Lynx Capital Ventures fund, formerly operated by London-based Bear Stearns Asset Management.
The private equity secondaries firm has purchased its first portfolio made up exclusively of Latin American companies from Buenos Aires, Argentina-based Pegasus Capital. The transaction is the first for Paul Capital’s São Paulo office.
The seller of the interest has not been named, though Liquid Realty said the fund manager focuses on core office properties in the West End of London.
The San Francisco-based private equity real estate secondaries firm appoints former Redwood Trust mortgage specialist John Arens as director.
The private equity secondaries firm has hired a chief of its Hong Kong office which opened in August 2007.
The private equity real estate firm hires former DTZ executive to capitalize on the growing secondaries and fund of funds market in Europe.