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Buyouts' North American fundraising data suggests a sustained drop in fund closings over 2022-23 might have leveled off somewhat last year and in H1 2025.

The mid-market GP is targeting a $2.75bn raise for Fund IV, having recently exceeded the target on its predecessor.

The fund’s investor base includes public and private pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, family offices and high-net worth clients globally.

Oak Hill’s Fund VII is part of a series that goes back to 1999, when the GP, the one-time family office of US billionaire businessman Robert Bass, raised its first outside capital.

Trident X is approximately $2.5 billion larger than Trident IX, a $9 billion fund, which closed in 2022.

The state of play across private markets fundraising. Plus: US fund managers want more ESG leeway from their European LPs; and Leonard Green is back in the market with its 10th buyout flagship. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Leonard Green is expected to size Green Equity Investors X along the lines of its predecessor, which raised $15.2bn in 2022.

Accessing the mass market will require a change in thinking and operational approach from GPs. Plus: a MENA fund close; and managers are increasingly benchmarking compensation. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Buyout, growth equity, secondaries, venture capital and other private equity funds raised a total of $250bn in the first half, down 13 percent from $289bn raised a year earlier.

North American funds were the most active during H1 2025 in spite of growing geopolitical uncertainty.