All About Secondaries (Fourth of a series)

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Last week in our special series on private equity secondaries, we discussed how GPs are leveraging newly developed liquidity in that market to manage funds and assist their LPs with their specialized investment needs. Given today’s challenged capital markets it’s also tougher to extract expected values from your best properties.

Sponsors are looking inwards and leaning into “know what you own,” our head of secondaries, Nick Lawler, tells us. They can raise incremental capital, continue investing in and owning a “trophy” asset…

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