General Partners

Many managers will continue to raise continuation vehicles, but others are taking more drastic action to escape the inertia of a stalled market.

The firm focuses on sectors heavily regulated by governments, in which the government is also the biggest spender.

Kingswood’s founder tells Buyouts that the firm has had 30 DPI events in four years.

Early results from an ILPA survey suggest LPs are ready to draw a line in the sand when it comes to investing with managers chasing retail capital.

Already 30% deployed, LPs also took to the portfolio’s existing performance, a Lexington partner told Buyouts.

The mid-market GP is targeting a $4.25bn raise as it looks to build on the success of its oversubscribed sixth flagship fund.

LPs confront GPs’ creative – or some would say ‘desperate’ – efforts to stay in market without a new fund.

The pain caused by compounding uncertainty will likely catalyze another stream of secondaries, which LPs say they’re clamoring for.

The firm, which launched with a deal-by-deal model, has invested heavily in operating partners as part of its investment thesis.

The PE industry’s plucky roots fed its growth into an established industry with a famed reputation. But which part of that story is the one individual investors want to buy into?