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All eyes on Carlyle fundraising czar Urquhart as firm targets $130bn

Carlyle this week outlined an ambitious four-year plan to grow its $246bn business through fundraising across private equity, credit and investment solutions strategies.

3 min read · 23 February 2021

CHART: Largest funds in market target $127bn

Vehicles by Hellman & Friedman, KKR and EQT are among the 10 largest in market as of mid-February, PEI data show.

2 min read · 23 February 2021

What the SEC’s new marketing rules mean for private funds

New guidelines clear away a web of no-action letters and provide new guidance, possibly opening up the opportunity for private funds to innovate, but coming with their own complexities.

10 min read · 23 February 2021

Peak Rock bumps up Fund III target to $1.8bn on strength of LP demand

Fund III, launched last November, has to date secured more than $1.6bn, 24% above its original target.

2 min read · 22 February 2021

Amid tech boom, JMI hikes Fund X target

The software-focused firm has raised its target amid a market environment amenable to the tech sector.

2 min read · 22 February 2021

How Investcorp plans to triple its Indian AUM

The firm plans to seed new strategies in India with its balance sheet before raising additional blind-pool fund products, its new country head Harsh Shethia tells PEI.

3 min read · 22 February 2021

Ex-KKR exec Jim Momtazee’s debut fundraising could achieve record haul

Recent hires at Patient Square include Neel Varshney, another former KKR healthcare executive, and Alex Albert, who most recently co-led private equity healthcare at Ares Management.

2 min read · 18 February 2021

Sagard’s healthcare royalty fund, led by CPPIB alumnus, closes at $725m

The pandemic might have had a beneficial effect on fundraising by “highlighting how impactful healthcare innovation can be,” Sagard's David MacNaughtan told Buyouts.

3 min read · 18 February 2021

Novacap’s sixth tech buyout fund blows past target, raising $1.86bn

Fund VI was “very significantly oversubscribed,” president and CEO Pascal Tremblay told Buyouts, with Novacap “more than doubling” the size of its investor base.

4 min read · 17 February 2021

With $1.5bn Fund VII, Adams Street gets ready for post-covid secondaries market

The firm said its focus on 'targeted transactions' as opposed to buying large LP portfolios will work to its advantage in the current market.

2 min read · 16 February 2021

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