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Secondaries buyers must be selective as more assets come to market amid liquidity pressures, says Pomona Capital’s Michael Granoff.

Exit events are proving the viability of GP stakes investing, which offers both yield and meaningful potential capital appreciation, says Bradford Pilcher, a partner at Bonaccord Capital Partners.

GPs are seeking partners that can provide a powerful growth engine and expertise around product expansion, say Joshua Blaine, head of GP stakes, and Ward Young, CIO for GP stakes at Blackstone.

Investors are taking a swing at establishing better terms and economics in a challenging fundraising environment, say Proskauer partners Ryan Carpenter and Aranpreet Randhawa.

Consolidating small and mid-sized Japanese companies is an effective value creation strategy that can also attract talent in a tight labour market, say J-STAR’s Yuki Kashiyama, Huan Zhao and Norio Adachi

Japanese private equity is entering a golden age – and empowering women in the workforce will drive further growth, says NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Ryoji Kanamori.

Active primary fund investing and increasing LP appetite for co-investments, secondaries and direct lending are indicative of Japan’s maturing private markets landscape, say Neuberger Berman’s Jonathan Shofet and Yoshi Yagisawa.

Japanese private equity hit new highs in 2023 as succession deals, corporate carve-outs and take-privates all continued to gain momentum, says Deloitte Asia Pacific’s Satoshi Sekine.

Trust can sometimes trump price in Japanese PE dealmaking, say T Capital Partners’ Koji Sasaki, Shunichiro Nakagawa and Kazutaka Komori.

The current market environment is unique compared to previous cycles, says Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Bradley Gross.