Hollyport Capital

Hollyport Partner Michael Catts recently spoke to Mergermarket about Silver Oak Services Partners’ continuation vehicle for dentistry support provider Smile Partners USA, which Hollyport co-led alongside BlackRock. Mike discusses what attracted Hollyport to the business and why he believes the deal was a “win-win” for all parties. Read more about the transaction and Hollyport’s approach to GP-led opportunities here: https://lnkd.in/eCmaiD-6 #PrivateEquity #Secondaries #ContinuationVehicle 

As LPs seek greater liquidity, private equity investors are increasingly exploring the secondary market for potential opportunities. In our latest panel at the European Private Capital Summit, key topics discussed include: - How to effectively use secondaries to improve returns - Scaling within the #secondarymarket and its potential for growth - Analyzing LP and GP stakes, continuation funds, and GP liquidity solutions The insights shared today by our panel who include; Christopher Good of Macfarlanes, Matt Jones of TPG, Sandro Basso of LGT Capital Partners, Vivien Blossier of Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), Nachiketa Rao of Goldman Sachs and Steven Nicholls of Hollyport Capital offer valuable perspectives for those navigating this evolving market. #PrivateEquity #SecondaryMarket #Liquidity #InvestmentOpportunities #FundManagement #PrivateCapital

Let’s kick off the first panel of the day at SuperReturn Secondaries Europe! Gabriel Mollerberg, Richard Grindrod, Alexander Przewozniak, Lisa Sun and Andrew Rearick are talking about the next chapter for the secondaries market, including the emerging trends they predict to shape the future of the market and how technological advancements will impact transactions and market efficiency! #SRSecondariesEurope

Hollyport is delighted to act as a co-lead investor in Silver Oak Services Partners’ continuation fund for leading dentistry services provider, Smile Partners USA. We look forward to working with Silver Oak to support the company's continued growth and success. 

Preqin recently published its 2025 Secondaries Outlook which includes commentary from our COO Edward Gay on the undercapitalisation of the secondaries market, the emergence of 40 Act funds and the impact of the growing GP-led market.   Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eMthUPd7 #PrivateEquity #Secondaries

Steven Nicholls, Senior Investment Partner and Head of GP-Led Solutions, shared his insights on the secondaries market and the GP-led opportunity for Private Equity Wire’s Global Outlook report. 2024 was a record year for secondary transaction volume and we anticipate an acceleration of this growth in 2025, driven in no small part by the constantly evolving GP-led market.   “As GPs continue to seek liquidity and ways to maximise the potential of their portfolio companies, the opportunity set for investors in this part of the market is immense. What will remain key is investment selectivity and discipline.”   Read the full piece below. #PrivateEquity #Secondaries 

Congratulations to our CEO John Carter who was named in Private Equity News' Twenty Most Influential in Secondaries for 2025.   Read more here:https://bit.ly/4fO87K6

We are thrilled to announce that Hollyport Capital, a specialist secondary investor focused on capturing value in legacy private equity assets, is using Canoe to streamline document management and systematise its data extraction processes. Thanks to Canoe, the team has saved approximately half the time they would have previously spent on manually processing portfolio monitoring updates. Scott Lomas, Vice Principal - Portfolio, Data & Analytics at Hollyport Capital, shared: “We chose Canoe to streamline the laborious portfolio monitoring process. We found Canoe was very capable at collecting documents from various sources which immediately saved valuable time previously spent on a low-level task, and we were also impressed that the system displayed a high degree of accuracy when scraping those documents for key data points.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/e-rE-2wc #AltsSmarter

For Secondaries Investor’s latest podcast, our CEO John Carter sat down with Etienne Deshormes of Elm Capital Associates Ltd to discuss the tail-end secondaries market, which has grown from $198 billion 10 years ago to $916 billion today. During the conversation, they share their insights on the key drivers of this growth, how to approach due diligence of such diverse portfolios, the evolution of the competitive landscape and the long-term outlook for this growing segment of the market.   Listen here: https://lnkd.in/eYWWgkVy

Over the course of the year, we have made a series of new appointments across the finance, portfolio data & analytics, operations and investment teams. We’re incredibly proud of our continued expansion which reflects the growing opportunity within the secondaries market and would like to extend a warm welcome to all our new joiners.   Senior-level additions include Chris Wilson who joined as Finance Director and Lyon Maher who joined as Head of Tax, both in London. Chris brings a wealth of expertise to the finance team and will be responsible for maintaining the financial integrity and operational efficiency of our funds. Lyon has extensive experience advising stakeholders on jurisdictional tax issues and will play a pivotal role in building the firm’s tax function.   In the investment team, we appointed six new Associates, three in London and three in New York. Our dedicated portfolio, data & analytics team has been strengthened with a Senior Associate, a Data Consultant and two Analysts, and we have added a Senior Fund Accountant and a Fund Accountant to the finance function. We also appointed a new EA & Operations Administrator in London.   Our COO Edward Gay spoke to Secondaries Investor about this exciting news – read the article here > https://bit.ly/3UgYnzN   #PrivateEquity #Secondaries #PeopleNews #TeamGrowth