Bridgepoint Group plc today announces it has agreed to add the team from Newbury, a leading mid-market secondaries investment firm with more than $4 billion of Assets under Management (“AUM”) as it continues to build a globally scaled, diversified alternatives platform. Upon satisfaction of customary closing conditions and conditions precedent, the experienced Newbury team is expected to join Bridgepoint in early 2026, expanding the Group’s capabilities into the attractive and fast-growing secondaries segment. The team brings established client relationships and, importantly, nearly two decades of proprietary data and performance history from the secondaries market, enhancing Bridgepoint’s analytical and investment capabilities.
Newbury specialises in acquiring limited partnership interests in established buyout, growth equity and venture capital funds. Founded in 2006, the team have raised over $6.5 billion in committed capital across six dedicated funds and have invested in more than 700 underlying private equity fund interests on behalf of over 250 limited partners worldwide, returning more than $5 billion in distributions since inception.
The team will manage Newbury’s most recent fund and will act as sub-advisor to its predecessor funds, adding $4.3bn of AUM to the Group at closing. In return for such sub-advisory services, Bridgepoint will receive an ongoing share of existing Newbury management fees making this a funded team lift.
Financial details are undisclosed.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is serving as legal counsel and Campbell Lutyens as financial advisor to Bridgepoint. Latham & Watkins LLP is serving as legal counsel and Berkshire Global Advisors as financial advisor to Apollo in the transaction.
Raoul Hughes, Group Chief Executive of Bridgepoint, said:
“The addition of the Newbury team is a positive step in Bridgepoint’s evolution, as we continue to scale and diversify our platform. We have spent the past year evaluating the best route into secondaries, and the Newbury team brings proven expertise, strong relationships and an outstanding track record & data set which provides us with an attractive entry point from which to organically build a scaled platform.”
Chris Jaroch, Partner at Newbury Partners, added:
“We’re hugely excited to be joining Bridgepoint, a global leader in mid-market investing. With Bridgepoint’s strong brand and resources, combined with Newbury’s decades of experience in the secondaries space, we believe we can continue to build and scale a compelling, integrated platform for our investors.”