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The London-based firm has hired Lama Al-Masri to focus on deal origination and investor relations.
Amadeus II is a 2000-vintage fund which still owns home screen marketing company Celltick and imaging equipment company Teraview.
The stakes include 2001-vintage Apax Europe V which still owns UK fashion retailer New Look.
Portfolio rebalancing is most LPs’ primary reason for selling on the secondaries market, according to Sixpoint Partners.
IK 2000 has two remaining portfolio companies including Danish workwear label Kwintet and German artificial track and turf manufacturer Sport Group.
The amount of unrealised value in tail-end funds will reach $337bn by 2017, according to a report from Credit Suisse.
Limited partners have mixed sentiments toward solutions to tail-end fund situations, according to a survey conducted by the Credit Suisse Private Fund Group.
The firm deployed its latest fund, Amberbrook VI, which closed on $400 million in 2012.
Hong Kong-based NewQuest Partners is seeing a more robust pipeline build up in Asia’s direct secondaries market, particularly in 2004- to 2007-vintage funds.
Richard Grindrod and Nicholas Richards (pictured) joined Hollyport in January as associates on the investment team.