Italy’s private equity weekly roundup. News from Neuberger Berman, BC Partners, Lega Serie A, Mps, Erg, Sergio Rossi, BIP, CFT and more

Private equity secondary market, after plunging globally to just 18 billion dollars in mid-2020 in transactions on shares of private equity funds or portfolios of funds from around 42 billions in H1 2019 (see here the press release on the semi-annual report of the advisor Greenhill and here the article by Secondaries Investor on the report of the advisor Evercore),  should have closed the year at just around 40 billions, but this year things will be very different and the secondary private equity market might even more than double investments and break the record of 88 billions touched in 2019. This is what stated in recent days by Philippe Patschkowski, a managing director of Neuberger Berman, speaking at Solving, the forum on the