Private equity sponsors may find themselves in need of capital due to the covid-19 crisis. Enter: the secondaries market.
Investors are expecting their GPs to do everything they can to save portfolio companies and keep employees on the payroll – and that includes accepting eligible government support.
Investors who rushed to join the country’s digital revolution are facing issues pre-dating the pandemic that could spell the end of private equity’s golden age.
Excluding private equity-backed companies from government assistance programmes only harms those pensions and employees society is striving to protect.
Our annual Japan Special showcases the tenacious local managers that have persisted through a tough market. It is this grit and determination that gives them confidence to face the next downturn.
We caused a stir with reports of unnamed LP defaults this week; was it a storm in a teacup?
A statement from pensions with combined assets of nearly $2trn is a clear warning to sceptics.
Private capital is starting to feel the force of the climate crisis tipping point.
The coronavirus epidemic could not have come at a worse time for domestic PE firms, some of which have already been struggling on the fundraising trail.
Diversity dominated discussion at IPEM 2020 in Cannes – but will these words turn into action?