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Prudential builds in-house private equity armThe financial services giant hired AIG executive Jackie Jenkins last year to lead the alternatives team, and is looking for someone to focus on the $3bn private equity portfolio.
- Kohlberg hits $1.6bn hard-cap
The firm surpassed its $1.5bn target by attracting commitments from more than 50 limited partners, more than 20% of which are non-US investors.
- Enterprise Investors raises €314m for Fund VII
The Polish firm’s final close – below its €650m target – comes after a string of exits by previous vehicles.
- Prudential hires head of private equity
The company, which hired former AIG executive Jackie Jenkins to run its alternative investments team, has brought on another former AIG executive to lead private equity.
- LeapFrog collects $204m for Fund II
The firm’s second fund has a $400m target and will have a wider financial services focus than its $135m debut vehicle.
- ILPA names MetLife’s Mazzola as chair
The Institutional Limited Partners Association’s new chairman Michael Mazzola will help direct the organisation’s expansion into Latin America and Asia.
- ILPA welcomes new LP directors
Some of ILPA’s new directors include Brad Woolworth, head of private markets and real assets for the Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement and Richard Hall, senior director of private markets at the Teachers Retirement System of Texas.
- New ILPA chair is UC Regents PE head
Timothy Recker has taken over the chairmanship of the Institutional Limited Partners Association from outgoing chair Joncarlo Mark of CalPERS.
- Great Hill Partners closes Fund IV on $1.1bn
The Boston-based private equity firm reached its target but reportedly fell shy of its hard cap of $1.25bn.
- IK closes sixth fund on €1.675bn(4)
The European buyout group has more than doubled its predecessor fund with its latest close, while its 2004 fund has fully paid back investors after three exits.