--- title: ‘Seconds, please’, says EQT description: EQT goes back for seconds, joining forces with Coller Capital to add $50bn of secondaries and cement its full-stack private markets ambition. image: https://community.ipem-market.com/hubfs/IPEM_Community_header-weekly-spin_full.jpg --- ## [![logo_IPEM-community_orange-1](https://community.ipem-market.com/hubfs/logo_IPEM-community_orange-1.svg "logo_IPEM-community_orange-1")](https://community.ipem-market.com/) [Follow us on LinkedIn ](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipem_privateequity) [Follow us on Youtube ](https://www.youtube.com/@ipem?themeRefresh=1) [More information ](https://www.ipem-market.com/) [✕](https://community.ipem-market.com/seconds-please-says-eqt#atbs-offcanvas-primary) [** ](https://community.ipem-market.com/seconds-please-says-eqt#) Share - ![Weekly_spin_secondaries_meme](https://community.ipem-market.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Weekly_spin_secondaries_meme.webp?width=1200&height=903&name=Weekly_spin_secondaries_meme.webp) ## ‘Seconds, please’, says EQT EQT goes back for seconds, joining forces with Coller Capital to add $50bn of secondaries and cement its full-stack private markets ambition. Seconds, please, says EQT, and not because the first course wasn’t filling enough. The firm is making a decisive move into private equity secondaries by combining with Coller Capital, one of the market’s original specialists, as it continues its steady march toward a full-stack private markets platform. The transaction brings around $50bn of secondaries AUM into the EQT orbit, while keeping Coller operationally independent and entrepreneurially run, a familiar EQT playbook. Strategically, the logic is straightforward: secondaries provide liquidity, portfolio management tools and capital recycling at a moment when LPs are increasingly impatient and exit paths remain uneven. EQT frames the deal as the “next step” in its evolution, noting that secondaries have become “an increasingly important tool for clients in managing liquidity and portfolio construction, and in supporting long-term ownership of high-quality assets” but the subtext is clearer still: in modern private markets, offering only primaries is starting to look like skipping a course. Schedule a call KNOW MORE Schedule a call [Inspired by EQT News ](https://eqtgroup.com/news/eqt-to-combine-with-coller-capital-to-enter-secondaries-marking-the-next-step-in-eqts-strategic-evolution-2026-01-22) ### Subscribe to the IPEM Newsletter!   ![James Williams](https://community.ipem-market.com/hs-fs/hubfs/1744544007605.jpeg?width=180&height=180&name=1744544007605.jpeg) [James Williams](https://community.ipem-market.com/author/james-williams) James is an experienced financial journalist and editor with over 20 years experience covering private markets and alternatives. 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