Janna Schubert has been appointed partner at Joran Partners. Going forward, she will advise family offices and other institutional investors on the sale of fund and direct investments in the secondary market, according to a company statement on Wednesday.

According to the company, Schubert has more than 10 years of experience in private markets and family offices. She began her career in corporate finance at EY Transaction Advisory. She later worked, among other things, on building the technology investment firms DTCP, Blue Horizon and Golding, and worked with family offices at Lürssen and CSP. She holds an MSc from HEC Paris and has been a member of Joran Partners' Advisory Board since 2025.

Response to market developments

With Schubert's appointment, the company aims to expand its advisory capacity for sellers in the secondary market. "More and more investors are turning to the secondary market, many of them for the first time," says Tanmay Annachhatre, managing partner of Joran Partners. "Janna has extensive experience working with limited partners across different markets and economic cycles. She also brings entrepreneurial experience in building and developing companies in the private markets sector, as well as an established family office network at the national and international level."

The appointment comes against the backdrop of a growing secondary market for private market investments. According to the investment banking advisory firm Evercore, transaction volume reached a record $121 billion in the first half of 2026. According to Jefferies, around 40 percent of sellers in limited partner-initiated transactions were active in the secondary market for the first time in 2025.

Joran Partners specializes in sell-side advisory for private market secondary transactions and, according to the company, focuses on smaller transactions with a volume of typically up to $100 million. The company is based in Zurich.