Carmela Mendoza
Carmela Mendoza is a senior reporter for Private Equity International based in London. She first joined PEI in Hong Kong in 2015 and covered Asia. A graduate of Ateneo de Manila University, she previously worked for a digital agency in Singapore focused on government websites and publications covering business, trade and industry, transport, and social development.
AltamarCAM's secondaries capabilities were particularly attractive at a time of heightened interest in liquidity, Mercer's Michael Dempsey tells PEI in a Q&A alongside Jose Luis Molina.
The firm sees opportunities at the intersection of energy and Europe’s push for greater sovereignty, IR head Cenk Turkinan tells PEI.
Early analysis of evergreen funds shows they outperform closed-end peers over both one- and three-year periods, according to the firm’s 2026 Market Overview.
The firm has not levered its private credit evergreen funds in the same way some of its peers have, according to chief executive David Layton.
The ecosystem is young, but the talent pipeline and appetite for partnership in Japan are becoming harder to ignore, chief executive Avi Kalichstein tells PEI.
How UK asset allocators are becoming some of the most influential LPs in private equity by actively redesigning it.
Investment staff recommend reducing the SWF's allocation to the asset class by 1% annually over a three-year period, CIO Marcus Frampton said at a board meeting.
GPs have to generate more cashflow and up their value creation game to make deals work, according to Bain & Co's Global Private Equity Report 2026.
Clients need to have options and managers need to provide them with more opportunities for deployment, Thomas de Villeneuve, CEO of Seven2 – formerly Apax France – tells PEI.
The UK pension scheme has an initial 5% target allocation to private markets, which it expects to reach by the end of 2026, investment director Martyn James tells PEI.