02
Apr
The surge of secondaries
The secondary market reached record transaction levels in 2024 and 2025 is expected to bring about further opportunities as GPs and LPs increasingly embrace secondaries as a permanent tool in portfolio management and liquidity plans. Our panel of secondaries experts will take stock of the growing LP and GP secondary market in the US, and touch upon changing dynamics as more mainstream PE players enter the space.
- GP-led vs LP-led – which will take preference in 2025 and how have market dynamics changed in the past year?
- How will GP-led and LP-led transactions develop in 2025 as the M&A and IPO markets come back?
- How are LPs continuing to leverage secondaries for liquidity, and where do they see the best opportunities?
- As more new entrants embrace the secondaries market, what are some strategies for success?
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SpeakersAmyn Hassanally Partner and Global Head of Private Equity Secondaries Pantheon
Ben Perl Managing Director and Global Co-Head of NB Secondary Private Equity Neuberger Berman
Jerald Khoo Senior Vice President AON
Benjamin Wilson Global Head of Secondaries HQ Capital
Tom Cane Funds Editor MERGERMARKET
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Amyn is the Global Head of Private Equity Secondaries at Pantheon. In his role, Amyn also serves as a voting member of Pantheon’s Secondaries Investment Committee as well as the Firm’s International Investment Committee. Prior to joining Pantheon, Amyn was an Investment Partner and formerly the global Co-Head of Investment Execution at Coller Capital, where he worked for almost 17 years in both London and New York. Prior to joining Coller, he practiced corporate law, focusing on private equity transactions and fund structuring. Amyn holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics from Brandeis University and a JD from the Duke University School of Law.
Benjamin Perl is a Managing Director of Neuberger Berman and Global Co-Head of NB Secondary Private Equity. He is a member of the Secondary, Real Estate Secondary and Strategic Capital Investment Committees. Ben joined the firm in 2001 and Neuberger Berman Private Equity in 2007. Prior to that, he worked as an associate at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners (now Tenaya Capital), where he was responsible for executing and evaluating mid-through late-stage equity investments across a wide range of industries. He also worked in Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Division in New York and San Francisco as part of both the Consumer Retail and Equity Capital Markets groups. Ben holds an MBA, with High Distinction (Baker Scholar), from Harvard Business School and a BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University.