Guest commentary

Abe Finkelstein
The little known ‘low-funded secondary’ can help GPs in the short and long term, writes Vintage's Abe Finkelstein (pictured).
glass slipper
The secondaries market's transformation into a $70bn market is due to both a wave of the Fairy Godmother’s wand and the payoff for years of scrubbing floors, write Houlihan Lokey's Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria.
Disclosure, the role of the LPAC and status quo options may make some GP-led restructurings unaligned with the industry body's guidelines, according to Cleary Gottlieb.
Cash bills
On the heels of ILPA’s recent best practices on GP-led secondaries, BRG’s Finbarr O’Connor and Gavin Farrell take a practical look at issues important to LPs, and how GPs can address the guidance as they formulate transactions.
Paris
Co-founder Agnès Nahum and partner Alexandre Delos discuss how the firm uses secondaries as a portfolio management tool and how fund duration and market cycles influence its decision to sell stakes.
fundraising
Tom Angell, partner at financial services firm WithumSmith+Brown, dissects the results of sister publication pfm's Fees & Expenses Benchmarking Survey.
As the market evolves, the lines between direct secondaries and secondary buyouts are becoming increasingly blurred, writes Rede Partners' head of secondaries Yaron Zafir.
Canada
As we release our Young Guns of Secondaries Class of 2018 ranking, secondaries veteran Yann Robard shares his advice for young people eyeing a career in the industry.
Simon Havers of executive search firm Odgers Berndtson details why carried interest allocation is not smooth sailing.
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