About the Event

The Global Secondaries Summit is the leading dedicated conference for the global secondaries market, held on 22 September 2026 at etc.venues Monument in London. Organised by Informa Connect, the event brings together 40+ expert speakers alongside a broad community of institutional investors, secondary fund managers, GPs, investment banks, and legal and regulatory specialists for a focused day of expert-led panels, fireside chats, and targeted networking. Complimentary passes are available for qualifying LPs and GPs, with early bird rates and partnership opportunities available for service providers, consultants, and secondary fund managers.

Audience and Attendees

The event draws a senior cross-section of the secondaries ecosystem including private equity professionals, LP investors, GP fund managers, fund stake buyers and sellers, investment bank advisors, and legal and compliance specialists. Speakers confirmed for 2026 represent firms including Hamilton Lane, Ardian, Ares Management, Hayfin Capital Management, Capital Dynamics, Pollen Street Capital, AltamarCAM Partners, and Future Standard, among others. The attendee mix reflects the full range of participants active in LP-led and GP-led secondaries, credit secondaries, and emerging secondaries structures.

Programme Structure

The single-day programme runs from registration at 8:30am through to a drinks reception closing at 7:05pm. Sessions open with a global secondaries market update delivered through a fireside chat followed by a panel discussion. The morning continues with a session on GP-led single asset transactions, latest market innovations, the application of agentic AI in secondaries operations, and the appeal of the market for new entrants. After a networking lunch, the afternoon covers GP-led multi-asset transactions, LP perspectives on secondaries investing, and credit secondaries. A dedicated afternoon session highlights next generation secondaries leaders under 35, before the chair's closing remarks and evening drinks reception.

Main Topics

The agenda covers the full breadth of the contemporary secondaries market. Key themes include the current state and trajectory of the global secondaries market, GP-led transactions across both single and multi-asset structures, LP-led secondaries and evolving LP attitudes toward the market, credit secondaries as a growing sub-asset class, the latest structural innovations in the secondaries space, the use of agentic AI as an operating system for secondaries deal execution and portfolio management, the competitive dynamics drawing new entrants to the market, and the perspectives and ambitions of the next generation of secondaries professionals.

Closing Session

The formal programme concludes with the chair's closing remarks at 5:30pm, followed by a networking drinks reception from 5:35pm to 7:05pm, providing a final opportunity for delegates to connect with peers and speakers in an informal setting.

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