LGT Capital Partners has announced the final close of Crown Global Secondaries II, its second global secondary fund, with total subscriptions of $1.2 billion. The program’s investor base includes government pension funds, corporate pension funds, insurance companies, endowments and foundations from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK and US.

Tycho Sneyers, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, comments: “There was very strong demand for the offering which initially targeted to raise $750 million. Following a first closing in Aug 2009 and a consistent deployment of capital throughout 2009, we raised our target to a cap of $1.2 billion. And even with the increased target size, the fund ended up significantly oversubscribed.”

Ivan Vercoutere, Partner at LGT Capital Partners, adds: "We have completed over 20 transactions so far for CGS II, in which we have acquired a total of over 50 underlying funds that have invested in North America, Europe and Asia. These transactions have performed very well and we believe our disciplined approach of acquiring high quality assets through mid sized transactions will continue to achieve attractive returns.”