OMERS Private Equity

In its 2022 annual report, OMERS attributed its overall PE performance to “organic growth in our portfolio EBITDA, coupled with our accretive M&A activities.”

The investor seeks to be the partner of choice for GPs and businesses in today's tough market, says the Ontario pension’s head of PE for Europe.

Alfaro was previously a New York-based managing director at OMERS Private Equity, where he focused on investing in business services and healthcare sectors.

About 90% of Penfund’s deals involve mid-market companies backed by sponsors like Leonard Green & Partners, Hellman & Friedman, Genstar Capital and OMERS Private Equity.

Graham talks to Buyouts about OMERS' uptick in PE dealmaking since January, expectations for performance, plans to deploy C$2bn-plus in Asia and a recent spate of hires.

We've compiled a list of five European firms you need to watch. Plus: which top PE managers have used continuation funds? We have the answer. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Blackstone's latest insurance deal will see it manage $92.5bn over the next six years. Plus: Malaysia's Creador holds a first close and why a lawsuit involving OMERS PE provides a rare glimpse into how LPs incentivise their direct deal teams. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Penfund led a US$90 million second lien credit facility and invested US$10 million of equity in Gastro Health, a Miami-based gastroenterology company.

Ontario Teachers’ will conduct an internal and external search for new leadership 'over the coming months,' an e-mail statement shared with Buyouts said.

Implementing a total portfolio approach will allow the US's largest public pension to put dollars to work where they're best used, says its head of PE. Plus: OMERS' new PE head has both IR and dealmaking skills and Oregon weighs up climate risk. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Blackstone picks up the award for large-cap firm of the year after reaching $1trn in AUM.

While much of the market news was gloomy, there were bright spots. Many GPs, big and small, old and new, succeeded in their fundraising – despite the challenging environment.

Stellex was founded in 2014 by Ray Whiteman and Michael Stewart, who previously headed Carlyle Strategic Partners, a distressed and special situations platform.

Technology and data are playing an increasingly wide-ranging role in growth initiatives, with AI opening up even more avenues of possibility.

Fund I wrapped up above an original hardcap on March 8, International Women’s Day. “It was very meaningful for me to choose March 8 as our close date,” Vertu founder and managing partner Lisa Melchior said.

If the target is met, Fund X would easily be Kohlberg’s largest pool to date. It would be 47% larger than Fund IX, completed last year at $3.4bn.