PEI Staff

Clear transaction rationale, defendable valuation positioning and a strong show of conviction from sponsors is helping buyers to get comfortable with continuation fund deals in a tough macro environment, says Matt Wesley at Jefferies.

Proactively tracking assets across global themes can provide an early edge in continuation fund opportunities, say Partners Group’s Anthony Shontz and Roy Baumann.

Co-investment will continue to play a crucial role in PE despite the present macro environment, says Markus Benzler, head of multi-managers private equity at UBS Asset Management

Availability of capital is the main challenge holding back explosive growth in the GP-led secondaries market, say PJT Partners’ Dayan Abeyaratne, Brian Levine and David Perdue

Today’s secondaries technology can provide flexible solutions for GPs and LPs during times of market turmoil, say Mary Lavelle, Daniel Quinn and Fadi Samman at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Times of uncertainty offer the buyside a window of opportunity, while sellers can benefit from liquidity, says Miguel Zurita, a managing partner at AltamarCAM Partners.

As GP-led deals have evolved, so too have the terms designed to create alignment of interest between all parties, say Proskauer’s Jordan Hurwitz and Natalie Scott.

The private equity industry should look to the mid-market for attractive deal opportunities in South Korea, say UCK Partners’ Soomin Kim, Sunwha Shin and Seungwoong Gwak