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For the energy private equity firm, which has a direct investment model, traction on the fundraising trail may owe to performance.

Bradley has played an active role in discussing PE strategy with the board and pioneered the use of secondaries sales at the $219bn system.

In today's edition, Evergreens are creating co-investment conflicts; One of Canada's most influential LPs heads to the Middle East; Women earn significantly less carried interest than men in the UK.

The changes come as Blue Sea, formed by Richard Wandoff and James R Davis Jr, targets $550m for its fourth fund, Buyouts previously reported.

Fund VI’s target size marks a 25% increase from its predecessor, which closed in 2024 with $600m of capital.

In today's edition, Our latest ranking of the world's largest secondaries fundraisers; An earlier than expected shakeup for Partners Group's C-suite; A secondaries specialist joins PE's growing band of MENA movers.

KCGI Private Equity is expected to launch Fund II in 2027, managing director Taeyoung Chung tells PEI.

Promoted to IMCO’s head of private equity in 2024, Elia believes that after roughly five-plus years of outsized growth the PE program is now ‘entering a more mature phase.’

Buyouts’ 2026 list of the biggest North American LPs finds plenty of familiar faces committing $1.5trn to the asset class, up 6.3% from a year earlier.

The value of the strategy is being debated as a tool to be used during an unprecedented slowdown in the private markets.