Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn is Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for Private Equity International and editing its daily Side Letter briefing for subscribers.
He joined the business in 2017 and previously covered the EMEA region from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
Dushy Sivanithy is joining Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s private equity funds team in London, PEI has learned.
Nexxus Iberia – which closed its first deal last week – is raising up to €250m to help Spanish and Portuguese companies expand into Latin America.
Dyal has completed four deals this year, following investments in Vector Capital and Clearlake Capital Group.
Total fundraising dropped to a three-year low of $162bn, down from a record $285bn for the same period last year, according to PEI data.
Managing partner Louis de Saint-Marcq, who is responsible for fundraising and origination across the Nordics, Belgium, Iberia and the UK, will lead the team.
The division was launched in April with a view to taking minority positions in publicly listed, mid-cap companies in Northern Europe.
Distributed ledgers can track where money moves, giving GPs and LPs better oversight on how their capital is being deployed.
Customisable fund models, particularly separately managed accounts, are becoming more popular.
Investors will increasing eschew commingled funds for direct or co-investments.
LPs' drive to cut the number of managers they use may create a split between blue-chip multi-strategy asset managers and smaller specialist GPs.