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SEC looks into Carlyle’s monitoring feesThe regulator has made ‘informal’ inquiries regarding Carlyle’s historical monitoring fee acceleration practices.
- Impetus-PEF unveils 2016 vision
The charity focused on supporting disadvantaged young people will initiate a new project in March looking at the barriers to education and employment.
- Adams Street picks up Charterhouse stakes
The stakes were acquired from William March Rice University amid an uptick in US foundation and endowment disposals.
- Bain agrees to sell Brakes to Sysco for $3.1bn
The firm initially acquired the food distributor from Clayton Dubilier & Rice in 2007 for about $1.75bn.
- Chart of the week: Blackstone bucks the trend
While most of the biggest managers of closed-ended private equity funds raised less capital in 2015 than two years earlier, one firm stood out from the crowd.
- Blackstone launches oil and gas investment platform
Clarion Offshore Partners will provide growth and opportunistic capital, finance special situations, as well as strategic support and asset management to assets and companies in the oil and gas drilling and services sector.
- Market volatility poses challenges for 2016 deals
Reports from PwC and Clifford Chance cite concerns around market volatility as reasons for a challenging 2016 for deal-makers.
- Former GSO, KKR execs start credit firm
Doug Ostrover, one of the founders of GSO Capital Partners, and Marc Lipschultz, KKR’s head of energy and infrastructure, are launching Owl Rock Capital to invest in private loans. The duo are raising a private fund and setting up a BDC.
- Carlyle completes $7.4bn acquisition of Veritas
This marks the biggest completed private equity deal announced in 2015.
- Blackstone dry powder soars 73% to $80bn
At the end of 2015, the global firm reported $79.7 billion in dry powder, of which $37.4 billion was attributable to private equity.