The direct secondaries specialist is in talks with the European Investment Fund, Secondaries Investor understands.
The investment manager has raised nearly double what it was targeting for its fourth secondaries fund.
BlackRock Secondaries & Liquidity Solutions is understood to count SWFs and pensions among its anchor investors.
The investment manager has made two promotions at its Bala Cynwyd head office, one to the position of MD.
The appointment comes after secondaries head Nico Taverna's departure last year.
Buyers' own rates of deployment will decrease by nearly 30% over the next two months, according to Setter Capital.
The secondaries firm is in market with its eighth flagship vehicle.
Whitehorse Liquidity Partners is a rising star of the preferred equity market, led by one of the industry’s most charismatic figures. What’s behind its success? A strategy treated as ‘genius’ by some and with wariness by others.
The firm backs restructurings in private equity and private real estate, among other complex deal types.
Buyers with an appetite for unfunded commitments could be an early beneficiary of coronavirus-related volatility.