Strategic Equity

ICG Strategic Equity (“ICGSE”) is a specialist private equity investor focused exclusively on the GP-led secondaries market. Since its launch in 2014, ICGSE has committed over $19 billion into some of the largest and most complex continuation vehicle secondary transactions globally.

ICGSE backs blue-chip financial sponsors to enable continued value creation in private equity assets, in transactions that also provide a liquidity option for existing investors.

Regions

  • North America
  • Western Europe

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ICGSE is one of the largest investors globally that is focused exclusively on GP-led transactions.

Strategic Equity focuses on structuring and leading single asset continuation vehicle secondary transactions in North America and Western Europe.

 

We back top financial sponsors to extend the value creation journey of their best performing assets, by enabling longer investment horizons, pursuit of M&A and other strategic initiatives, and investor base realignment and liquidity solutions.

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2024
01 Mar 2024
ICG Strategic Equity on the evolution of single-asset deals
Rob Campbell, Head of North America, and Andrea Serra, Head of Europe, Strategic Equity, interviewed in Private Equity International01 Mar 2024
2023
06 Mar 2023
How big is the GP-led secondaries market today?
Rob Campbell, Head of North America, Strategic Equity, quoted in Amy Carroll's story for Private Equity International06 Mar 2023
2023
03 Mar 2023
The group going all in on single-asset secondaries
ICG Strategic Equity team behind the market’s biggest dedicated GP-led fund has a reputation for being clear, efficient and an intermediary’s dream via its ‘sole buyer’ strategy, reports Secondaries Investor's Adam Le03 Mar 2023
2023
02 Mar 2023
Like a buyout… but different
Single-asset continuation vehicles enable secondaries investors to gain exposure at scale to some of the highest quality assets in private equity, says ICG Strategic Equity’s Ricardo Lombardi in this PEI Q&A02 Mar 2023
2022
01 Sep 2022
ICG enacts succession plan as it eyes next multi-billion fundraise
Secondaries Investor's Adam Le reports01 Sep 2022
2022
22 Jun 2022
ICG collects more than $5bn for largest fund dedicated to GP-leds
ICG‘s Strategic Equity team has held the final close on its latest vehicle, raising what is understood to be the largest dedicated pool of capital focusing on GP-led secondaries, reports Secondaries Investor22 Jun 2022

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