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.
Capital raising for its latest vehicle follows a restructuring at the firm in which its private equity, private credit and small loans businesses will operate as separate entities.
2 min read · 30 March 2021
Don't hold your breath for an improvement in relations between the world's two largest economies, says CalPERS' former PE head.
3 min read · 25 March 2021
The Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund and the Local Pensions Partnership are among UK government pension schemes that have made the biggest allocation to private equity, according to PEI data.
2 min read · 24 March 2021
The firm has held the final close on its latest co-investment fund in a year where co-investment appetite and deal opportunities are expected to rise.
3 min read · 19 March 2021
More than half of investment teams in UK and continental Europe were all-white last year and 12% featured no women, according to analysis by the two organizations.
2 min read · 19 March 2021
More than half of UK and continental investment teams were all-white last year and 12% featured no women, according to analysis by the two organisations.
2 min read · 18 March 2021
David Layton, who will become Partners Group’s sole CEO in July, speaks to PEI about the leadership change, opportunities in the defined contribution market and why SPACs have been ‘overdone’.
6 min read · 18 March 2021
Special purpose acquisition companies are both an opportunity and a threat, interim chief investment officer Dan Bienvenue tells the pension’s investment committee.
3 min read · 16 March 2021
European markets are easing the path to public markets to lure more PE funds and their portfolio companies as SPACs become more mainstream.
4 min read · 16 March 2021
The European manager's latest lower mid-cap fund raised €815m, well over its €600m target and 80% more than its 2017-vintage predecessor.
2 min read · 16 March 2021
