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Thoma Bravo seeks $750m for first private credit fundThe buyout firm is just the latest in a string of technology specialists to launch a debt arm.
- First Round: PE takes on the JPMorgan corporate challenge
Private equity makes a good showing in the annual JPMorgan corporate challenge.
- Technology, technology everywhere
Stellar returns have driven a huge amount of capital to technology-related investments.
- Tech young guns gather €700m
EMH, which recently hired former EQT pro Thomas von Werner, has hit its €350m hard cap and raised a further pool of co-investment capital.
Tech funds rise up ranksPrivate equity capital raised by tech-focused firms among the 30 largest GPs has expanded by more than six times from 2013 to 2017.
- PEI 300: New York outstrips the rest
Firms headquartered in New York City raised more in the last five years than the next five fundraising capitals combined.
- Fundraising special: 20 years of placement agents
Two veteran fundraisers discuss the return of high-net-worth capital, the rise of fund restructurings and a question that has been asked since the mid-90s: is too much money chasing too few deals?
- From the archive: Jim Davidson on the birth of Silver Lake
In the week that it cemented its position as the preeminent technology-focused private equity investor, we revisit a 2010 conversation with co-founder Jim Davidson charting the firm’s meteoric early rise.
- Blackstone's Baratta: Don't rely on multiple expansion
Joe Baratta made his name on Blackstone’s crisis-era investment in Merlin Entertainments Group. As another slowdown looms, we find out where the firm is putting its private equity dollars.
- Silver Lake raises $15bn
View the latest capital raises