A US secondaries firm and a fund-of-funds manager have emerged as potential bidders for a chunk of SVG Capital's portfolio, a day after Goldman Sachs and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board were confirmed to be interested in tabling an alternative to HarbourVest's takeover bid for the UK-listed private equity investor.

SVG, in a statement on October 4, said it had agreed "in principle" to sell 50% of the investment portfolio to Pomona and Pantheon for £379 million.