Fundraising

Ardian: Brexit vote ‘helped our fundraising cause’

Global investor demand for European assets turbo-charged the French investment firm’s latest fundraising, enabling it to close its sixth mid-market buyout fund in just four months, says Philippe Poletti, head of the Ardian Mid Cap Buyout team.

HQ Capital raising new mid-cap fund – Exclusive

Equita Fund V, which focuses on small and mid-cap companies in German-speaking Europe, has raised almost half its €400m target so far.

Market at a glance – Summer is over but fundraising stays hot

Back to School: LPs sift through record number of funds in market

Editor's Letter: Don't throw away informal fundraising communications, please

GPs buttress PPMs, LPAs with co-investment disclosure

PE lobbyists take `rifle shot' approach in effort to cut regulations

Rothschild holds final close on latest secondaries fund

The banking group’s Five Arrows Secondary Opportunities unit has also hired three staff this year including a secondaries executive from BEX Capital.

Private Eye: Riverside broadens credit biz with software fund, senior lending efforts

Raised in a matter of months

When a general partner says “I raised my fund in three months,” how meaningful is that number?