Experience

• • TPG as co-lead investor in a €1 billion+ single-asset continuation fund sponsored by Oakley Capital to acquire German university group IU Group from existing Oakley Capital vehicles. The deal won “Secondaries Deal of the Year in Europe” at the PEI Awards.
  • ICG in the formation of ICG LP Secondaries I, a $1 billion fund specializing in acquiring buyout fund interests from limited partners.
  • CPP Investments in a structured liquidity transaction, partially divesting a portfolio of energy funds, with initial gross proceeds of approximately $860 million.
  • HarbourVest Partners as co-lead investor in a $1 billion continuation fund, sponsored by OEP, to support continued growth for two European portfolio companies.
  • All Seas Capital in the formation of All Seas Capital I, a $400 million debut pan-European private fund.
  • Prudential Financial, in partnership with LeapFrog Investments, in its acquisition of a strategic minority interest in Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, a leading provider of financial advice, retirement, investment, and holistic wealth management services in South Africa, by way of a bilateral acquisition from Mercer Africa Limited and a partial tender offer on the JSE to eligible shareholders.
  • The lead investor in an approximately $120 million continuation fund, sponsored by a leading Israeli private equity sponsor, to acquire multiple assets from an end of term fund.
  • A major international financial investor in the formation of a €1 billion+ global infrastructure fund.
  • HarbourVest Partners as lead investor in Secondary Fund II, a €350 million continuation vehicle sponsored by Portobello Capital, involving stakes in two Portobello-managed portfolio companies.
  • Ardian and Pantheon as co-lead investors in a €1.2 billion annex fund, sponsored by Antin Infrastructure Partners, to buy minority stakes in four assets held by Antin’s 2016-vintage Fund III.
  • Pantheon and LGT Capital Partners as lead investors in a continuation vehicle sponsored by Medicxi, a European life sciences investor, involving six preclinical- and clinical-stage assets.
  • HarbourVest Partners as lead investor in the GP-led restructuring of Bridgepoint Capital’s €4.8 billion crisis-era fund, Bridgepoint Europe IV.
  • A leading secondaries fund sponsor in its acquisition of a portfolio of venture capital and private equity interests from a major European private equity manager.
  • Canson in the formation of its $100 million co-investment fund, which will co-invest in the acquisition of a majority stake in the Financial and Risk division of Thomson Reuters.
  • Deutsche Bank in its co-investment into Medi-Globe.
  • Park Square in the formation of Park Square Capital Partners III, a €1.2 billion subordinated debt fund.
  • HarbourVest Partners in its €360 million acquisition, through a fund managed by Compass Partners International, of five portfolio companies from Bridgepoint Capital.
  • Prudential Financial in its $350 million partnership with LeapFrog Investments, targeting investments in life insurance companies in Africa.
  • HarbourVest Partners, Neuberger Berman, HQ Capital and Idinvest Partners in the secondary acquisition of limited partnership interests and a related stapled investment in funds managed by Mandarin Capital Partners.
  • HarbourVest Partners in the €400 million secondary acquisition, through a newly-formed fund managed by Portobello Capital, of the private equity portfolio of Portobello Capital II LP, as part of a fund restructuring.
  • Park Square in the formation of Park Square Capital Credit Opportunities II, a $2.4 billion senior debt programme.
  • JF Lehman in the formation of JFL Equity Investors IV, an $833 million buyout fund.
  • Liberty Mutual in the disposition of two separate portfolios of 50 private equity fund interests worth approximately $225 million.
  • Odyssey Investment Partners in the formation of Odyssey Investment Partners Fund V, a $2 billion U.S. buyout fund.
  • Providence Equity Partners in the formation of Providence Equity Partners VII, a $5.1 billion global media, entertainment and communications fund.
  • Providence Equity Partners in the sales of minority interests in the firm to a U.S. state pension fund and a non-U.S. sovereign wealth fund, and to a private equity unit of an independent investment manager.
  • Tenex Capital Management in the formation of Tenex Capital Partners, a $452 million U.S. distressed debt fund.