The EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) signifies a new chapter for transparency in the asset management industry. From the 10th of March, investment managers will be required to disclose the “principal adverse impacts” (PAIs) of investment decisions on sustainability factors as they relate to environmental, social and...

The rise of the Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle, or SPAC, is a bona fide phenomenon. While they are by no means new, in 2020 at least 206 of these blank-cheque vehicles raised a record $70bn in proceeds in the US alone, a five-fold annual increase. This meteoric ascent, with PE firms such as Apollo Global getting in on the action, begs the...

Most of you will probably be familiar with the Institutional Limited Partners Association - or more commonly referred to, ILPA, the global, non-profit, member-driven organization whose mission is to advance the interests of over 550 member institutional investors from more than 50 countries representing over 2 trillion dollars into Private...

It is no secret that in 2020 the private equity secondary market was dominated by GP-led fund restructurings. Estimates suggest  that these transactions approximately doubled their share of secondary trades last year, from around one-third to potentially as much as half to two-thirds of the overall market. Only a few years ago, these deals...