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5 questions with Carl ThomaCarl Thoma, managing director of Thoma Bravo, chats about the industry in the wake of a recent fund close
- Market wrap up: Oversubscribed Thoma Bravo fund leads the way
Fund-raising pledges received by buyout and mezzanine firms so far this year stands at $16.4B, while deal flow inched up to 73 transactions
- The Haves and the Have-Nots: How Are Some Firms Beating The Fundraising Odds, While Others Fail Miserably?
Talk to any firm that’s painfully plodded along at fundraising for the past year, and they’ll blame it all on the environment. “It’s tough out there with cash-strapped LPs and fears about the future of private equity,” they’ll say. These “Have-Not” firms are basically stuck in fundraising purgatory, and they sing a very, very different tune than that of the “Haves.” And there are certainly plenty of “Haves” who seemed to defy an impossible fundraising market. Just last week Odyssey Capital topped the target on its fourth fund by half. There are more where that came from (incomplete list below). But I want to know, what is the difference here? Are the “Have-Nots” just mediocre firms that got swept up by a rising tide? Are they the “tourist” PE firms http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e3af08a-1185-11de-87b1-0000779fd2ac.html like the ones the FT called out today? Or is it a symptom of the type of investors they have? Or is it their investment strategy? What about the performance of existing prior portfolios? Or, maybe the “Haves” simply got lucky?
- Thoma Bravo Raises Ninth Fund
Thoma Bravo has closed its ninth private equity fund with $822.5 million in capital commitments. Its first investment from the fund came last April, when it acquired Acresso Software for $200 million.
- peHUB Wire: Monday, March 16, 2009
Game Time
- peHUB Wire: Monday, March 16, 2009
Game Time
- PEHUB Wire: Monday, February 9, 2009
Random Ramblings: Washington DC Edition
- PEHUB Wire: Monday, February 9, 2009
Random Ramblings: Washington DC Edition
- LP briefs, February 2009
News briefs about LPs in California, Chicago, Maine, New Jersey and New Mexico