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Stonecourt Capital has raised over $282.3 million for its fourth fund, according to an SEC filing.

Private equity participants are increasingly willing to spend big to influence politics. Plus: Advent is coming back with its next flagship (who isn't?) and Ares is the latest blue-chip to bet big on its private wealth channel. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Some PE firms learned that CEOs who showed a good combination of empathy and energy led their teams through the crisis, and the ones that showed too little of either really struggled.

Lessons from its debut 'impact-driven' long hold fund 'will trickle in' to the rest of the firm's platform, says EQT's Anders Misund.

The strategy will seek up to $4.25bn between the main fund and a sidecar with a slightly modified mandate, according to documents from New Mexico SIC.

Coral Tree is among a handful of first-timers braving the fundraising markets, which have become more open to emerging managers.

The 10 largest funds to have closed in the first three quarters of 2021 amassed $143bn between them, $40bn more than in the equivalent period last year.

Key third-quarter highlights from private equity's listed giants. Plus: Korea's STIC has upped its pan-Asia hard-cap ahead of backdoor listing and Australia's Liverpool Partners wants to make a multi-asset impact. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Information asymmetry is growing as more administrative costs are being shifted away from the management fee and directly charged to LPs as expenses.