Porchlight Equity, rebrand of Highland Consumer, talks to LPs about first fund
Highland Consumer Partners, which made growth investments in the consumer sector, rebranded to Porchlight Equity [...]
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L Catterton-backed dental-implant company ClearChoice explores sale
L Catterton-backed dental-implant provider ClearChoice Holdings LLC is on the auction block, according to three [...]
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How Florida-based Sun Capital prepared for, dealt with Hurricane Irma: Q&A with IR chief Scott Edwards
You are based in Boca Raton, Florida, which got hit hard by Hurricane Irma. How [...]
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Air-ambulance providers: REVA, Angel Medflight explore sales
Two jet air-ambulance companies are in the midst of sponsor-driven auctions. Beekman Group-backed REVA Inc is [...]
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Bernhard Capital raises more than $700 mln for second fund
Bernhard Capital, launched in 2013 by the former CEO of Shaw Group, has collected more than [...]
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Washington state forms new relationships with Wellspring, New Mountain
Washington State Investment Board formalized new relationships with two private equity firms at its meeting [...]
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Five Questions with DSC Quantitative Group, CEO and Founder Art Bushonville and President Jeff Knupp
What is DSC Quantitative? Jeff: The idea, really simply and at its core, is to [...]
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Need to Meet: Ben Crawford, Senior Product Manager, Backstop Solutions
The title of a recent white paper by Ben Crawford throws down a gauntlet to [...]
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Editor’s Letter: The weird, wild world of CalPERS private equity
California Public Employees’ Retirement System is in talks under which BlackRock would take over its $26 billion [...]
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Market at a glance – September ramps up PE fundraising and deal-making
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising surged in the first half of September. Over the past [...]
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LP Scorecard: Minnesota generates $1.8 bln from PE
Minnesota Board of Investments realized over $1.8 billion in distributions from April 2016 through March [...]
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Taking Flight: As geopolitical tensions rise, PE eyes aerospace and defense deals
With tensions on the Korean peninsula ratcheting up, the defense, aerospace and government-services sectors are [...]
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Idaho sees record distributions from PE in Q1
Idaho’s Public Employee Retirement System’s private equity portfolio returned $95.4 million in the first quarter, the [...]
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Waud Capital scoops up Anovia, TrustCommerce in payments drive
Waud Capital, a middle-market PE firm known for investing in software and healthcare services, has [...]
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Peter Glaser leaves KKR’s capital-markets platform
The chief operating officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s capital markets team, Peter Glaser, left the [...]
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Lovell Minnick clinches first real estate deal with CenterSquare
With its buy of CenterSquare Investment Management, Lovell Minnick Partners has struck its first real [...]
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Glendon tops $2 bln, heads for $2.5 bln cap for distressed investments
Glendon Capital Management has raised more than $2 billion for a second fund that won’t be drawn [...]
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Stonepeak’s third infrastructure fund could hit $7 bln
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ latest fund could reach as much as $7 billion, documents released by [...]
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