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Secondaries surge; Permira’s new fund; predicting management team performance

Barriers to entry

Why cross-border dealmaking has become harder for GPs to navigate

A day of debt

Real Deals hosted its sixth Mid- Market Debt conference in London last month, bringing together GPs, lenders, advisers and management teams
to discuss market trends

Dissecting debt

Why relationships matter, trust trumps term sheets and how lendre balancing pressure to deploy with managing downside risk

Breakfast briefing

What the transformation of the acquisition finance scene means for term sheets and relationships

Lux lift off

AIFMD, BEPS and Brexit have formed a perfect storm. Luxembourg has offered a port in the tempest

Q&A

EY’s Laurent Capolaghi analyses Luxembourg’s PE offer

Corporate finance corner

DC Advisory’s James Pople on financing deals in a volatile market

Deals in Brief

A round-up of deals from the past few weeks

Podcast

Shawbrook’s Nick Leitch and FRP’s Andy Dimmock talk ABL

Vulture

Brothers and sailing; boxing or golf; the appeal of southern Europe