Kirk Falconer

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Managers

Carlyle taps Nathan Urquhart to lead global fundraising campaigns

Urquhart will take charge of fundraising for all Carlyle investment platforms, including corporate private equity, private debt and real assets, a source told Buyouts.

2 min read · 09 November 2020

News & Analysis

DeVos family-backed GP stakes fund places first bet on Newbury

Newbury Partners is marketing a fifth secondaries offering with a target of $1.75 billion and a hard cap of $2 billion, Buyouts reported last November.

3 min read · 06 November 2020

Managers

Blackstone’s Joe Baratta: long-life private equity funds 'now an asset class'

Blackstone's global head of private equity speaks exclusively to Buyouts about the firm's long-hold strategy. Blackstone raised $8.2bn for its second offering, 70% more than the strategy’s 2016-vintage debut fund.

3 min read · 04 November 2020

Managers

L Catterton bags $641m for fourth consumer growth fund

L Catterton will stay on the fundraising trail to give limited partners time to complete allocations, a source told Buyouts. The offering is expected to close in early 2021.

2 min read · 03 November 2020

News & Analysis

The greening of private equity: the watt and the why

Private equity energy investors embrace the promise but also the challenges of the transition from fossil fuels to the burgeoning renewables movement.

10 min read · 02 November 2020

Managers

Amulet, led by JLL veterans, raises most of second healthcare fund’s $500m target

Fund II’s close may be helped along by Amulet's recent agreement to sell Synteract to Syneos Health, which is expected to generate a more than 4x multiple and 40 percent gross IRR.

3 min read · 30 October 2020

Managers

Azimut sees GP stakes bolt-ons as potent growth tool for mid-market firms

CEO Jeffry Brown, a former Dyal Capital Partners principal, expects to see bolt-on strategies in use over the next five years, especially as mid-market firms increasingly transact with GP stakes funds.

3 min read · 28 October 2020

Managers

Ascend Partners, led by ex-Warburg healthcare head, unveils $300m fund

Ascend was founded in 2019 by In Seon Hwang, formerly global head of healthcare at Warburg Pincus, and Richard Park, ex-CEO of Warburg portfolio company CityMD.

2 min read · 27 October 2020

Research

Download: North American PE fundraising takes a U-turn in Q3

US and Canadian buyout, growth equity, secondaries, venture capital and other PE funds collected $200bn at the end of September, down 25% from the same time last year.

1 min read · 26 October 2020

Managers

TPG’s Rise Fund II charts course for final close after passing $2bn mark

Rise Fund II is already larger than its predecessor, which closed in 2017 at $2.1bn, becoming one of the world’s largest dedicated pools for impact investing.

3 min read · 22 October 2020

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