Deals

Speakers at May's PEI Operating Partners Forum Europe comment on how the asset class can make sure it has a Plan B.

Partners Group's Steffen Meister believes the days of being able to buy private assets cheaper than public ones are over, but PE will continue to outperform public equities.

The Deutsche Bank spin-out has led a consortium comprising Blackstone, Hamilton Lane and GCM Grosvenor that backed a deal involving six of Argonne Capital's assets.

IRRs in China are comparable with those in US and Europe, but a maturing economy is forcing funds to work harder to generate returns.

Sellers have less negotiating power and reduced financial standing when it comes to reinvesting in their business, according to Goodwin’s 2018 Rollover Survey.

Transaction value picked up last year with $73bn worth of private equity-backed investments led by mega-deals.

TPG and its co-investors put in approximately $1bn for Baidu’s financial services group.

Why it can be problematic to connect a GP-led secondaries deal to a primary fundraising.

A lack of industry standards makes measuring the size of secondaries deals tricky in a fast-evolving market.

GPs deployed €19.2bn into entry deals in the first quarter of the year, down from €37bn in the same period in in 2017, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.