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Energy: One of the richest areas for co-investments?The floodgates for fundraising and dealmaking have not fully reopened in a market that has come back from a downturn in commodity prices.
The rise of the African secondary buyoutWhat the increase in sponsor-to-sponsor transactions says about the growing private equity market.
Energy investing: 5 charts that matterFundraising has slumped as LPs take a selective approach to the sector.
- Friday Letter: African promise
Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein made headlines last year for suggesting Africa was poised to become the next private equity hotspot
- Energy Capital busts through $3.5bn target
The New Jersey-based firm raised more than $5bn for its third flagship fund.
- JC Flowers adds managing director from CD&R
Eric Rahe has joined the private investment firm’s New York office.
- Energy Capital hits $800m hard-cap for mezz fund(2)
The firm’s debut energy mezzanine fund had a $500m target and invests in energy companies similar to those in Energy Capital’s two private equity funds.
- First Avenue hires former Park Hill exec
The firm has hired Chris Leach as a partner one week after adding former Willis Stein partner Philip Pool as co-chairman.
- GSO seals $513m oil and gas exit
Blackstone’s debt affiliate will sell Bear Tracker Energy to Summit Midstream Partners less than three years after investing $200m in the business. GSO invested or committed more than $1bn to energy investments in 2012.
- Energy Capital hits $800m hard-cap for mezz fund
The firm’s debut energy mezzanine fund had a $500m target and invests in energy companies similar to those in Energy Capital’s two private equity funds.