In December 2025, Bridgepoint agreed to add the US-based mid-market secondaries specialist Newbury in a funded lift-out.
The strategy will focus on single-asset continuation vehicles alongside existing sponsor relationships.
The London-based startup aims to address private credit's fund-level liquidity, which remains constrained by available cash and redemption terms.
The partnership will also develop products for wealth investors, beginning with an evergreen private equity secondaries fund expected in the coming weeks.
The firm has appointed Loïc Beaumont as Head of Private Equity to lead the initiative that targets LP-led secondary positions in European buyout funds.
The Euronext Amsterdam-listed manager is also preparing to launch two additional products focused on credit and infrastructure secondaries.
The oversubscribed vehicle will make sub-€20 million investments exclusively in European VC funds.
Following Coller's recent acquisition by EQT, the two managers also plan to expand into real asset secondaries and develop a secondaries insurance offering.
Qualitas Secondary Opportunities I will invest in LP stakes, GP-led transactions, and late primaries across the European lower mid-market, including the UK.
The global impact investor's debut fund for secondaries reached a first close anchored by France's development finance institution Proparco.
