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Levine Leichtman’s Frankel and Weinberg on the firm’s succession, strategy and future

The succession plan "put an organization established 36 years ago on course for the next 15 years," managing partner Michael Weinberg told Buyouts.

5 min read · 28 July 2020

Owl Rock targets $2bn with first fund in opportunistic strategy

The firm hired a new managing director and promoted another to run the opportunistic strategy, which will focus on what one source called 'companies that just haven’t gone quite right.'

2 min read · 28 July 2020

DOWNLOAD: Fewer North American PE funds secured big money in H1

US and Canadian buyout, growth equity, secondaries, venture capital and other PE funds raised a total of $162bn in the first half, up 8% from a year earlier.

1 min read · 28 July 2020

BlackRock expects alternatives boost from wealth channel

The investment giant estimates capital commitments from private wealth investors will make up close to a fifth of its alternatives assets by year-end, says alternatives chief Edwin Conway.

2 min read · 28 July 2020

Madison Dearborn Partners close to wrapping up $4.5bn Fund VIII

If Madison Dearborn Capital Partners VIII meets its target, it will be the second-largest fund raised in the Chicago PE firm's nearly three-decade history.

2 min read · 27 July 2020

Deal activity to remain subdued until people can shake hands again: Blackstone’s Gray

While public markets investing can be done from a screen, private equity dealmaking is a different sort of animal.

2 min read · 27 July 2020

CPPIB’s Woolhouse to lead TPG secondaries push

The CPPIB secondaries head will lead TPG's secondaries investment strategy in Europe and the US.

2 min read · 27 July 2020

Blackstone’s Gray: DC money will first go to private real estate, secondaries

In the firm’s Q2 earnings call, Jonathan Gray pointed out where in private markets he thinks investment from defined contribution benefit plans will get directed to first.

2 min read · 27 July 2020

Five questions with Blackstone Life Sciences’ Nicholas Galakatos

The newly formed investment arm leveraged the full power of Blackstone for its $4.6bn fundraise, and continues to do so as it deploys the fund.

5 min read · 27 July 2020

Centre Lane faces wave of departures over past few months

Despite the departures, the firm’s employee count has grown to some 31 people from 15 five years ago, a source told Buyouts.

2 min read · 24 July 2020

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