LGT Capital Partners

This week, we hosted the 2026 edition of our London Annual Investor Summit at the Hotel Café Royal, where we explored the latest trends in alternative investing with our UK clients. The wide-ranging program covered private equity, private credit, structured credit, hedge funds, emerging and frontier market debt, artificial intelligence and UK investment opportunities. Many thanks to everyone who joined us!   Watch our video to get a glimpse of the summit.

We are pleased to share the first episode of the Origins podcast since Elizabeth 'Beezer' Clarkson and her team joined LGT Capital Partners as part of the Sapphire Partners integration announced in April. Origins and the OpenLP platform have moved across with the team, and we very much look forward to continuing the conversation the team has built with the venture community over the past years.   In this episode, co-hosts Beezer and Nicholas Chirls (Asylum) sit down with Nicholas Csicsko, Managing Director of Investments at Trinity Church NYC Wall Street – a classically trained musician with a doctorate from Juilliard who now helps oversee a diversified investment pool of more than USD 4 billion.   The discussion explores what LPs really look for in venture managers, the tension between patient capital and liquidity, the disconnect between private and public market valuations and why the best GPs are those who know themselves deeply.   A thoughtful listen for anyone close to venture and institutional investing: https://lnkd.in/e4RDWbu8

Liquidity has always been a core element of venture capital’s value proposition. For decades, companies matured in private markets before exiting through IPOs or acquisitions. Today, liquidity is less about market-driven events and more about engineered, negotiated and permissioned processes.   As traditional exits have faded, secondary markets have become a cornerstone of venture liquidity. For investors, this can create attractive opportunities.   Read our whitepaper here: https://lnkd.in/erv5ngFM

Asia’s private equity market is entering a new phase marked by greater selectivity, longer holding periods and rising demand for liquidity solutions. Doug Coulter, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, will share his perspectives on these topics at DealStreetAsia’s Private Equity Leadership Summit in Hong Kong, where the opening panel will explore possible ways to reignite fundraising and consider how GPs are adapting to shifting investor priorities. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eMUVqcQE

Next week, our colleagues from LGT Capital Partners will attend industry events in Hong Kong and Florida. Brooke Zhou, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, will moderate a panel about China at the HKVCA Greater China Private Equity Summit in Hong Kong on 19 May 2026. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e2Y2ng-h JD Crouchley, Principal at LGT Capital Partners, will be in Clearwater for the NDT Fund Conference, participating in a conversation about how private equity is navigating a changing landscape, including trends in deal flow, secondaries and fundraising. Find out more here:https://lnkd.in/eZ9Ysc3H

We wrapped up our secondaries roundtable in Stockholm yesterday and Copenhagen today, bringing together clients for a focused discussion on the growing role of private market secondaries across private equity, private credit and infrastructure. A central theme across both sessions was the strong growth of the secondaries market. With liquidity remaining scarce, this is fuelling both sides of the market: LP‑stakes, which have become an important portfolio management tool and GP‑led solutions, including single‑asset continuation vehicles. Insights from André Aubert and Felix Janssen, both partners at LGT Capital Partners and Martin Patek, Executive Director at LGT Capital Partners, highlighted how these trends are influencing private equity, private credit and infrastructure as the market evolves.

We are pleased to announce that the latest edition of the LGT Capital Partners Insights series is now available. The whitepaper examines the strategic case for venture capital, discusses liquidity in the asset class and looks at lessons in building a venture portfolio.   Read our whitepaper here: https://lnkd.in/erv5ngFM

This week, colleagues from LGT Capital Partners will be sharing their insights at industry events in Singapore and New York. Doug Coulter, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, will attend the AVCJ Private Equity Forum in Singapore on 12 May 2026. He will join the opening panel exploring whether Asia’s private equity market is at a turning point, as shifting fundraising and exit dynamics reshape the regional landscape. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eUi4B7bn On 13 May 2026, Martha Heitmann, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, will attend Markets Group’s Private Equity Forum in New York. She will join a discussion on the rise of secondary transactions and continuation funds, exploring the market forces driving their growth and looking at how these structures are being used to create liquidity and extend ownership of high‑performing assets. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/ecKiQNHD

We are pleased to announce the successful closing today of Legato Euro CLO III DAC (Legato III), which reached a total of EUR 454 million. Arranged by Deutsche Bank, it attracted orders from around 20 existing and new investors. The CLO features a 1.5-year non-call period and a 4.5-year reinvestment period. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e2NF6w2t

In an article by AsianInvestor, Doug Coulter, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, talks about Asian private equity managers’ priorities as they increasingly seek proof of performance. He highlights that DPI visibility has become the most decisive filter in LP decision-making. Additionally, Doug considers a proven exit track record, strategy clarity and sector depth to be key. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e8Vx9XsP