naseba is pleased to introduce Greenpark Capital as a leading sponsor for the MENA Investors Summit 2009, taking place on November 1st to 2nd, 2009 in Riyadh (www.menainvestors.com).
Established in 2000, Greenpark Capital is one of the leading global secondaries specialists focused on the mid-market with €1.3billion of capital under management. With an international team of highly experienced, multi-lingual investment professionals, Greenpark is well positioned to cater for the rapid growth of the global secondaries market. A deep understanding of local markets has placed Greenpark at the forefront of secondaries innovation.
Greenpark advised funds, which are capitalised by major institutions including banks, pension funds and insurance companies from Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East, have made over 150 fund investments.
"Greenpark is pleased to be sponsoring the MENA Investors Summit 2009 and the team and I are very much looking forward to the opportunity to meet with investors in the region and develop lasting business relationships. Greenpark has an international team with a thorough understanding of the secondaries market, both globally and locally, and I hope to continue to develop our reputation within the sophisticated investment community in the MENA region." Eric Pathé, Investment Director, Greenpark Capital
naseba, in partnership with MENA's largest sovereign wealth funds, leading family offices and the biggest private equity companies in the world, have launched the first ever investor focused capital-raising, deal flow initiative in the MENA region - focused on introducing capital to lucrative opportunities: The MENA Investors Summit, on the 1st and 2nd of November 2009, will take place in the heart of the liquidity-rich Middle East - at the Four Seasons Hotel, in the Kingdom Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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About Greenpark Capital
Greenpark is an independent global private equity secondaries investment group, currently managing funds of €1.3 billion. Its culturally diverse investment team executes transactions across the global market with a focus on mid-sized mature investments. Greenpark has an established reputation for structuring deals with expertise, innovation and discretion to deliver tailor-made solutions for its clients. Whether a seller requires liquidity for strategic, portfolio management or any other reasons, Greenpark delivers a customised response to their requirements.
Secondaries have been in existence since the late 1980s, when they developed as a way of allowing investors to trade out of illiquid positions in private equity funds. During the 1990s the market for secondaries steadily increased, but it was not until the early 2000s that secondaries came of age, as the secondaries market developed away from purely a means of generating short term liquidity into a proactive portfolio management tool. In the current market environment private equity investors are increasingly looking to secondaries both as a means to free up committed capital and as a highly effective tool to adjust exposures to particular asset classes or sectors, fully exit from funds or to release capital for other strategies.
Less than $10 billion was raised worldwide by secondary funds between 1995 and 2000, whereas $15 billion was raised in the secondaries market in 2007 alone. The vast amounts invested in private equity in recent years combined with the increasing liquidity pressures of the credit crunch are expected to produce good vintages for the counter-cyclical secondaries market over the next few years.
Greenpark advised funds, which are capitalised by major institutions including banks, pension funds and insurance companies from Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East, have made over 150 fund investments. Greenpark combines experience and innovation to remain at the forefront of developments in the secondaries field
