Fundraising

Chart of the week: 77 percent of investors taking aim at the middle market in 2017

Chart of the week: China and India are seen as most attractive emerging markets

Private Eye: New performance metric counters flaws of investment multiples

Strategic Partners collects $7.5bn for Fund VII

The Blackstone unit raised the hard-cap on its latest fund and is expected to hold the final close by the end of January, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Goldman’s West Street fund holds first close

West Street Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs’s seventh buyout fund and its first since 2007, is targeting $5bn and has already made two investments.

Privately Speaking: Orlando Bravo

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.

Tax reform, deregulation expected under Trump but details elusive

Predictions revisited

At the end of last year we made five predictions for 2016; let’s see how we did…

HGGC expands LP base to Asia with Fund III

<p>HGGC Fund III, which closed on $1.84bn, received the firm’s first LP commitments from Japan and Korea.<br /></p>

AreaOne Farms harvests growing institutional demand for farmland assets