Stapled Deals

LPs decided on Friday to sell between $800m and $900m worth of stakes in what could be one of the largest such deals ever.

LPs in the $5bn Providence Equity Partners VII have until Friday to decide if they want to sell their stakes to a consortium that includes HarbourVest and StepStone.

A huge stapled secondaries deal last April set sovereign wealth fund Mubadala on the road to being a third-party fund manager, but what has it done with the capital?

Why it can be problematic to connect a GP-led secondaries deal to a primary fundraising.

The firm used a stapled deal to 'push forward' fundraising on its $800m Asian mid-market fund, which closed on Wednesday.

Greenhill's Bill Thompson has joined the firm's PCA group as co-chief executive alongside Nigel Dawn.

Bumper fundraising, stapled deals and preferred equity were some of the themes in the awards for 2017.

In the first of a three-part series, Cyril Demaria, head of private markets at Wellershoff & Partners, says that new entrants into the secondaries market often underestimate the amount of information and level of insight required to succeed.

Secondaries Investor examines the transactions that caught the eye over the last 12 months.

Deals linked to Asia-Pacific made headlines in a year when deal volume and fundraising in the region flatlined.