Private equity and venture capital

UK headquartered mid-market private equity fund

Advised the entire investor-base of a UK headquartered mid-market private equity fund on an investor-led action to remove the existing general partner and manager. 

A French listed insurance company

Advised on the disposal of a portfolio of 116 Europeans fund interests to five separate buyers.

Capiton AG

Advised on a GP-led single asset secondary transaction relating to the KD Pharma Group. 

Firethorn Capital

Advised on the raising of Firethorn Trust LLP, a real estate investment platform investing on behalf of US private family offices.

A Swiss asset manager

Advised on its private equity investment programme including over 100 fund commitments across buy-out, venture, mezzanine and secondaries strategies.

A syndicate of seven secondaries buyers

Advised on the tender offer acquisition of partnership interests in a German buy-out fund.

BlueGem Capital Partners

Advised BlueGem Capital Partners, a mid-market buyout private equity firm focused on Western Europe, on a liquidity offering made to all investors in its 2007 vintage private equity fund, involving transfer of its four portfolio companies being transferred to a new fund managed by BlueGem. The new fund was funded by Glendower Capital, a spin-out of Deutsche Bank's secondaries private equity business.

Aberdeen Standard Investments

Advised on a manager-led liquidity offering in respect of six fund-of-fund vehicles, with a primary staple to a newly established, fund-of-funds vehicle managed and advised by ASI.

Five Arrows

Advised Five Arrows as lead investor in a secondaries transaction involving the acquisition of six growth-stage companies from the balance sheet of Tikehau into a new vehicle which Tikehau will continue to manage, alongside a primary commitment to TGE II. 

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