Limited partners are increasingly looking down market at emerging managers, including firms run by women and minorities, as a way to diversify their private equity portfolios.
7 min read · 31 August 2015
Accolade Partners has raised at least $200 million for its fifth flagship fund-of-funds, surpassing the total raised by Accolade Partners IV by $50 million, according to SEC filings.
1 min read · 27 August 2015
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a Republican Party effort to invalidate an SEC rule limiting investment advisers’ political contributions, ruling the time for such a challenge has elapsed.
2 min read · 26 August 2015
A new $500 million joint venture with TPG’s special situations platform will bolster CIT Group’s ability to secure lead agent status on new loan facilities, CIT’s President of Corporate Finance Jim Hudak told Buyouts.
3 min read · 26 August 2015
The San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association moved forward with plans to expand an existing separate account with Partners Group to include private debt and infrastructure, spokesman Adam Sands told Buyouts.
2 min read · 26 August 2015
Oak Hill Capital Partners is seeking $3 billion for its fourth flagship fund, $800 million less than what it raised through its previous fund in 2009, according to SEC filings.
2 min read · 25 August 2015
Southern Cross Group is back on the market with its fifth Latin America fund targeting $1.75 billion, according to El Paso Firemen & Policemen’s Pension Fund Deputy Executive Director Mark Austin.
2 min read · 25 August 2015
Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Icon Ventures invest $17 million in San Francisco-based Zephyr Health, which provides big data services for pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
2 min read · 21 August 2015
San Francisco company has now raised more than $33 million in funding
2 min read · 20 August 2015
Portfolio Advisors plans to recommend four new private equity funds to the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions (LAFPP) between August and the end of the year, according to a strategic plan update made available by LAFPP General Manager Ray Ciranna. The commitments will likely total between $80 million and $90 million.
2 min read · 20 August 2015
