Private Equity
PEI’s editorial team tackled the climate crisis, racial inequality, tax avoidance and everything in between this year.
2 min read · 30 December 2020
Hellman & Friedman’s process, along with others like Clearlake Capital’s single-asset secondary deal to move Ivanti out of an older fund, is a sign that the most high-profile GPs are comfortable using the secondary market to preserve ownership of older assets.
3 min read · 29 December 2020
Representatives from Blackstone, CalPERS and PSERS were among this year’s most quotable denizens of private equity.
3 min read · 29 December 2020
PEI Media’s Spotlight podcast was downloaded more than 56,000 times this year, with discussions ranging from the pandemic to diversity to when and how to build an in-house IR team.
2 min read · 28 December 2020
A festive verse from Eamon Devlin, a Zurich-based partner at asset management consultancy MJ Hudson.
2 min read · 25 December 2020
Private Equity International will be back on 4 January.
1 min read · 24 December 2020
The close would be over the fund’s $3bn target. Oak Hill started raising Fund V last year.
1 min read · 23 December 2020
The study from MJ Hudson is based on funds in the asset management consultancy's database.
2 min read · 23 December 2020
The question of whether the asset class really delivers outperformance or is simply a billionaire factory came to the fore in 2020 with professor Ludovic Phalippou's last word on the subject.
3 min read · 23 December 2020
The tech-focused investor's chairman and chief executive admitted to tax evasion on almost $200m of assets in October.
3 min read · 23 December 2020