Alex Lynn is an award-winning journalist and Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for PEI Private Equity and editing its daily Side Letter briefing for subscribers. He joined the business in 2017, having previously covered EMEA markets from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
Bridges Fund Management – a pioneer of the strategy – held a second close on £50m for its debut permanent capital vehicle last week, PEI can exclusively reveal.
2 min read · 10 July 2018
EQT and Triton are among firms that have launched the strategies. What will it take for them to be successful?
3 min read · 10 July 2018
ECI 11 had a £650m target and hit its hard-cap 80 days after launch, a spokesman for the firm told PEI.
2 min read · 08 July 2018
Dushy Sivanithy is joining Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s private equity funds team in London, PEI has learned.
2 min read · 05 July 2018
Nexxus Iberia – which closed its first deal last week – is raising up to €250m to help Spanish and Portuguese companies expand into Latin America.
3 min read · 04 July 2018
Dyal has completed four deals this year, following investments in Vector Capital and Clearlake Capital Group.
2 min read · 04 July 2018
Total fundraising dropped to a three-year low of $162bn, down from a record $285bn for the same period last year, according to PEI data.
1 min read · 03 July 2018
Managing partner Louis de Saint-Marcq, who is responsible for fundraising and origination across the Nordics, Belgium, Iberia and the UK, will lead the team.
1 min read · 29 June 2018
The division was launched in April with a view to taking minority positions in publicly listed, mid-cap companies in Northern Europe.
2 min read · 28 June 2018
Distributed ledgers can track where money moves, giving GPs and LPs better oversight on how their capital is being deployed.
2 min read · 28 June 2018
