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Blackstone’s secondary group takes 20 pct stake in Wazee Street IV Wazee Street IV targets $200 mln Fund features European-style waterfall distribution structure Blackstone Group’s secondaries unit has made an anchor investment in a new distressed debt fund being raised by Wazee Street Capital Management, according to a source familiar with the deal. Blackstone’s Strategic Partners Group, […]

LPs seek exits for maturing assets Secondary players ramp up efforts GPs urged to share portfolio company When private equity funds grow up, they more rarely move out of the house. As the asset class matures, fund duration has been creeping up, according to industry players. For LPs and GPs, this market dynamic offers an […]

The $1.3 billion, vintage 2012 Thoma Bravo Fund X from Thoma Bravo had a net internal rate of return of 34.2 percent as of September 30, according to an investor who asked not to be named. That IRR well above the 14.8 percent top-quartile threshold for U.S. private equity funds of the same vintage, and […]

Yellow Point Equity Partners has secured $150 million in the final close of its fourth private equity fund, earmarked for investments in mid-market companies in Canada and Northwestern United States. It is the largest fund raised in the Vancouver-based firm's 12-year history, bringing total assets under management to about $250 million.

Chicago firm beats target with first fundraise in seven years Solid returns from Fund VIII fuels demand for Fund IX Founder says firm’s crisis-era funds “as close to ground zero as you can get” Charles Moore had trouble sleeping over the last few years. The Banc Funds Company founder’s voice strains when he describes his firm’s […]

Firm: Altas Partners Fund: Altas Partners Holdings Target: $600 mln Hard Cap: $ 1 bln Amount Raised: $600 mln Placement Agent: Park Hill Group Altas Partners held a second close on about $600 million for its debut fund, which is the amount the fund is targeting, according to a person with knowledge of the firm. […]

Globally 1,061 funds closed on $550 bln in capital in 2015 Blackstone’s $18 bln flagship was 2015’s biggest U.S.-focused fund KKR’s $10 bln pool is biggest U.S.-focused fund yet to close Private equity fundraising has hit a fever pitch. Some 1,630 funds worldwide are in the market trying to raise $488 billion, according to Preqin, which provides […]

HIG Capital earned a greater than 10x cash-on-cash multiple with the sale of Infogix Inc, a source said. Thoma Bravo announced Tuesday it acquired Infogix, a Naperville, Illinois-based provider of data analytics to Fortune 1000 companies. Financial terms were not disclosed. HIG invested in Infogix from its fourth buyout fund, which closed at $750 million in 2006. As […]

Denham raising oil and gas fund targeting $2 bln Firm eyes $1 bln for power fund Plans to launch mining fund in Q1 Denham Capital is making some big changes: It has split its business into three distinct areas of focus — oil/gas, mining and power — and is raising three separate funds around the strategies, according […]

Firm: PAG Fund: PAG Asia II Target: $3 bln Hard cap: $3.5 bln Amount Raised: $3.66 bln Placement Agent: Park Hill Group Legal Counsel: N/A PAG hurdled over its hard cap to raise $3.66 billion for its second flagship private equity fund, according to a Form D filed with the SEC on Dec. 29. The […]