Kirk Falconer

Brookfield rolls out seventh flagship PE fund, targets $12.5bn

In keeping with past practice, Brookfield will make a hefty commitment alongside Fund VII’s LPs, totaling $3.5bn, sources told Buyouts.

Blurring the lines: LPs look to become shareholders

LPs are voicing an interest in stepping outside their traditional fund role and investing directly in GPs. The result could be a new class of shareholders in private markets.

Chip Schorr’s Niobrara tops Fund I’s $750m target, stays in fundraising mode

Niobrara Capital was in June named one of Buyouts’ ten emerging managers to keep an eye on in 2025.

Is healthcare private equity fundraising seeing a mini-surge?

This year and last, some of private equity’s best-known specialists in healthcare investing closed funds above their targets, perhaps owing to revived dealmaking in the sector.

Off-duty: Motive Partners’ Rob Heyvaert on Charles Aznavour, negronis and love of the sea

Heyvaert tells us about his life in fintech, his admiration for Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs, and what John le Carré said about the view from behind your desk.

Fintech specialist Motive Partners eyes $3.25bn target for latest PE fund

Motive's most recent private equity deal, closed earlier this year, backed Lyra, a client-servicing solution for alternative asset managers, spun out of Apollo's client services division.

Meet North America's biggest private equity investors

The 100 biggest investors allocated a whopping $1.41trn to the asset class as of the end of December 2024, according to Buyouts data.

Private equity needs a liquidity wake-up call, says Bain & Co’s MacArthur

The illiquidity of many institutional LPs is ‘scary,’ MacArthur said in a recent podcast. 'We’re not even in a recession and yet we’re hitting a number that is correlating to the worst recession in 75 years.'

Mid-market investor Centre Partners sets $150m target, $200m cap for Fund VIII

Centre Partners’ capital raising might get a lift from the initial performance of Fund VIII, which as of March was earning a 54.8% net IRR, according to pension documents.

Many family offices upping PE exposure despite liquidity headaches

Twenty-nine percent of BlackRock survey respondents would allocate more capital to private equity funds, or create an allocation, in 2025-26.