Europe

Companies are staying private for longer, but our economies need fully functioning and vibrant public markets as well.

Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.

During a webinar launching PwC and ULI’s latest report on European real estate, panelists debated where the best value can be found.

Peakside Capital Advisors intends to hold the 127-year-old Neo-Baroque-style property for the long term on behalf of a pension fund client.

Traditional and alternative managers, as well as institutional investors, provide a vote of confidence in the real estate market, according to Drew Murphy, partner and head of the private markets advisory practice at Berkshire Global Advisors.

Strong rental growth allowed the manager to exit portfolios of industrial and student housing assets three years earlier than planned.

Graeme Torre’s successor Brian Hung has led the team’s entry into a number of new strategies in Korea and Australia over the past 12 years.

The investment arm of the French energy giant has acquired a 50% stake in the holding company of Savills IM’s European Living Fund.

Up-and-coming talent from across PEI Group’s under-40 lists share the sustainability and impact trends that are gaining momentum in alternatives.

As anti-ESG rhetoric in the US intensifies, private markets players appear to be dialling down their messaging, but not their actions.