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The Evolving Private Capital Landscape: Liquidity, Secondaries & Co-Investments
About this session
LPs are increasingly prioritising liquidity, distributions, and disciplined capital allocation amid a more selective and constrained fundraising environment. The discussion will explore the growing shift towards co-investments, secondaries, independent sponsors, and direct deals, as investors seek greater transparency, alignment, control, and fee efficiency. Institutional capital is becoming increasingly concentrated among top-performing managers, with heightened scrutiny on track record, governance, value creation, and risk management. At the same time, real assets, infrastructure, energy transition, and GCC markets are attracting significant investor interest as LPs pursue resilient, long-term yield opportunities and portfolio diversification. Against a backdrop of evolving geopolitical dynamics and shifting global capital flows, direct engagement between investors, fund managers, and strategic partners has become more important than ever.
Speakers
- Alex Seddon – Head of Impact & Private Equity M&G Investments
- Antimo Osato – Head of UK Origination Westbrooke
- Christiaan de Lint – Managing Partner Headway Capital Partners
- Per Wimmer – CEO Wimmer Family Office
- Mark Watts – Partner LCP
Chapters
- 0:00 Introductions
- 3:00 Scale and fundraising concentration
- 19:14 Crowding in real assets and infrastructure
- 25:54 Why LPs prioritise co-investments and direct exposure
- 32:18 The case for and against large funds
- 36:42 Attracting GCC capital: the role of niche managers
- 39:47 The family office view
- 42:19 Blind spots for investors
Next Summit
UK-GCC Private Capital 3rd Annual Investment Summit
13 May 2027 · Royal Lancaster Hotel, London
UK-GCC Private Capital is an investor-led platform for asset owners and asset managers, LPs and GPs, private equity, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, investment funds, financial institutions and growth-driven businesses across the UK, GCC, Europe and the US.