Private Equity News & Analysis

21 Changemakers: from Evercore’s Nigel Dawn to Kathy Jeramaz-Larson, formerly of ILPA.

PEI’s list of 21 Changemakers highlights the pioneers, partners and personalities who have had an outsized impact on the industry, and those whose actions continue to shape its future.

Asia-Pacific family offices are hungrier for private equity funds than their international peers. Plus: inflation could drive LPs towards debt and infrastructure next year and Italy's Ambienta wants to launch a raft of products. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

It’s not often that PEI interviews someone who speaks frankly about living ‘in danger’. In 2019, Bill Browder, once the most prolific international investor in Russia, did just that.

In our first deep dive into the democratisation of the asset class, the PEI team learned exactly what has driven this trend – and how much work still needs to be done.

To commemorate Private Equity International's 21st anniversary, we take a look back at the last two decades (and one year) of private equity. Plus: Blackstone's Strategic Partners unit surpasses the target for its debut GP-led fund; and Temasek opens its third European office. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The darling of so-called ‘growth markets’ investing took just half a year to unravel in a saga that has yet to conclude.

The buyout model relies on ‘extracting value for the benefit of a few’, Denmark’s former prime minister told PEI in 2010, as he pressed for a regulatory clampdown on private equity.

Two fresh surveys shed light on how GPs and individual investors are thinking about private equity this year. Plus: a document published by 82 LPs just gave managers a major boost on the road to net zero. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The media gathered in Westminster to watch MPs quiz senior buyout executives about the private equity industry’s tax and business practices.