BC Partners

BC Partners will retain some economic interest in its $1bn inaugural real estate fund, with a 17-strong team joining Proprium, PEI understands.

Private equity managers are once again hoping to break the dealmaking dam in the year ahead.

Exit activity across the industry will continue to pick up over the second half of this year, says the firm’s chairman of Europe Nikos Stathopoulos.

PEI spoke to managers from across the private equity landscape to learn what changes are in store over the next 12 months.

Fundraising by UK private equity and venture funds was at its highest over the last three years, at £70.2bn, with almost one-third contributed by North American LPs.

In our final episode of Private Markets and the end of Cheap Money, we hear from IMCO, MidEuropa Partners, Oaktree Capital, BC Partners and more on what investment professionals there keep their eyes on in the era of higher borrowing costs.

In the third episode of our Commitment Issues podcast series, Joana Rocha Scaff of Neuberger Berman and Alexis Maskell of BC Partners discuss the state of the increasingly competitive private equity strategy.

How are placement agents responding to private equity’s woes, and what do investors think they could be doing better?