PE firms like TPG find fertile M&A ground in VC-backed tech companies
TPG’s recent deal for ed-tech startup EverFi reflects an emerging trend that one partner says the firm [...]
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IVP is said to seek buyer for eVestment
The auction of eVestment, the data company backed by Insight Venture Partners, has moved into [...]
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LPs turn opportunistic, sell younger-vintage funds on secondary market
More limited partners are selling portfolios that include young funds — those raised within the past [...]
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Q2 exits: American Securities headlines with selloff of Metaldyne
Private equity exit activity in the U.S. picked up in the second quarter. Overall, U.S.-based [...]
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Market at a glance – Huge Apollo fund fuels red-hot fundraising
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising hit a massive swell as Q2 wrapped up. Over the past [...]
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Chart of the Week: Many LPs skip funds because of terms
The power balance between LPs and GPs in private equity swings back and forth like [...]
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Q2 Fundraising: LPs pour into the megas as U.S fundraising hits $82 bln
U.S. private equity raised $85 billion in the second quarter, a 67 percent surge that puts [...]
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Five Questions With Madison Capital’s Adam Willis
Adam Willis serves as a managing director at Madison Capital Funding, where he heads up [...]
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Chart of the Week: Fees present largest area for improvement to LPs
Some things never change. LP frustration about fees is the perennial complaint in private equity. [...]
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Back to School: On fundraising side, PE parties like it’s 2007
Fueled by public pensions facing shortfalls, private equity funds are amassing capital at pre-recession levels, [...]
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Leveraged Loans: Three bidders on bad loans of 4 Italian banks are said picked
U.S. funds Fortress Investment Group, Bain Capital and Blackstone have been picked to submit binding [...]
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Need to Meet: Lawrence Calcano, CEO, iCapital Network
Lawrence Calcano says he spends his working hours on three things: strategy, clients and culture. [...]
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On the move, 7.24.2017 – ILPA names interim CEO
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Altegris Advisors, a provider of alternative investment strategies, hired Robert S. Naka as chief [...]
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MTS Health-backed early-phase CRO heads to market
MTS Health Investors is exploring the sale of Celerion less than three years after investing [...]
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PE nets 17.2 pct for CalSTRS, smashing benchmark
California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s $16.9 billion private equity portfolio returned 17.2 percent over the [...]
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How two ex-Carlyle partners beat target on their debut fund
Michael Stewart and Ray Whiteman, former Carlyle Group partners, raised a debut fund of $870 [...]
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Q2 M&A: Elevated prices won’t curb sponsors’ appetite for deals
A high-price environment hasn’t stopped traditional private equity firms from finding new investments, with sponsor-led [...]
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Want an SEC exemption? Invest like a venture capital fund.
I spent a few hours recently trying to track down information about EnCap Investments through [...]
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