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He came to power promising to 'drain the swamp'. As Trump gives his first official State of the Union address, we look at the private equity professionals the president invited into his circle.

William Hagerty spent time at Trident Capital before co-founding his own firm 20 years ago.

Thoma Bravo just closed Fund XII on $7.6bn, twice the size of its predecessor. Managing partner Orlando Bravo talks about how the firm evolved from a generalist private equity shop to a software specialist, and his own role in that transformation.

A private equity consortium has invested $30m in the battery manufacturer.

Statistics will tell you that the Chinese venture capital market is still in its early throes of development. Last year, according to a survey by IndUS Business Journal, US companies raised just over $20 billion from early-stage investors, compared with a little more than $1 billion raised in China. But there is sufficient anecdotal evidence that the Chinese dragon is stirring.

A number of recent and current deals suggest that the secondary buyout – a mainstay of the credit boom era – may be making a comeback.

The online marketplace for holiday home rentals has attracted a record financing round from investors amid a difficult funding environment. Austin Ventures and Redpoint Ventures seeded HomeAway in 2005.

Venture capital fund formation luminaries Jonathan Axelrad and Robert Fore have left Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for Goodwin Procter.