Asante Capital Solutions – Q4 2020 Newsletter

Looking ahead to 2021, with much of the practical and portfolio adjustments already made this year, we feel cautiously optimistic that both GPs and LPs are increasingly well-equipped to successfully navigate further market volatility as they focus on their fundraising and capital allocation objectives.

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Maximizing chances of success on GP-led transactions

It’s a tough market for continuation vehicles and other GP-led transactions. Transactions fail to finish, with the two key challenges being pricing falling short of expectations and capital raising falling short of the amount required to underwrite the transaction. Amid this difficult environment, Asante’s secondaries advisory team has an over 90% success rate in closing transactions in the past 18 months across North America and Europe.

Asante Capital Solutions – Q2 2023 Newsletter

As private equity faces uncertainty worldwide, we expect the next five years to see a marked improvement throughout Europe. With the region’s macroeconomic environment showing signs of stability, we anticipate the European market will emerge with new transaction opportunities.

Private Equity’s First-Quarter Fundraising Dollars Hold Steady but Closings Fall

Fraser van Rensburg, one of Asante’s managing partners, was quoted in The Wall Street Journal for an article by Chris Cumming about Q1 2023 private equity fundraising activity.