What does 40 years in private markets teach you? with Victor Mayer and Charlotte Morris

Today Managing Partner, Tim Whybourne, speaks with with two senior members of the Pantheon global private equity team in CharlotteMorris and Victor Mayer about their new evergreen private equity fund coming to the Australian market.

Pantheon is a global private asset manager managing over 65bn in discretionary assets across a range of private equity investments. They have 11 offices and 125 investment professionals around the world. They have been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than four decades, driving long-term value creation for their clients through strategies covering the full investment lifecycle.

The Pantheon Global Private Equity Fund (PGPE) aims to provide professional investors around the world with unique exposure to a diversified private equity portfolio sourced by Pantheon’s global investment team. PGPE focuses on secondaries and co-investments, offering diversification by manager, stage, geography, vintage year and industry, all through a single allocation.

• High-conviction private equity portfolio accessed via a single allocation
• Concentrated in secondaries and co-investments, with a buyout and growth equity focus
• Evergreen allocation tool with immediate exposure and quarterly liquidity

Victor Mayer is a managing director and portfolio manager at Pantheon in London and ictor is a member of Pantheon’s European Investment team where he focuses on the origination, analysis and execution of primary investments and co-investments. Prior to joining Pantheon, Victor was a Director at HSBC Alternatives Ltd, where he worked on primary fund investments, secondaries and co-investments across Private Equity, Private Debt and Impact. Before that, he spent 3 years at Access Capital Partners in Paris, having started his career in transaction services at Deloitte in Luxembourg. Victor holds a master’s degree in Corporate Finance from ESSCA in France.

Charlotte Morris is a Partner in Pantheon’s Global Secondaries Team and is responsible for co-managing the activities of Pantheon International Plc (PIP). She is involved in all aspects of Pantheon’s secondaries business including the analysis, evaluation and completion of secondary investment opportunities. Charlotte joined Pantheon in 2006 from Cdb Web Tech, an investment vehicle listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. She serves as a member of Pantheon’s Global Secondaries Investment Committee and Sustainability Committee, and is engaged across Pantheon’s transactional investment activities. Charlotte received a master’s degree in mathematics from Cambridge.

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