Private Equity
The tension between fiduciary duty and sustainability is front and centre today: BlackRock's Larry Fink spells it out, while a keynote at our CFOs and COOs Forum Europe gives a more nuanced view. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
4 min read · 14 October 2020
Research from proSapient shows most in the industry are willing to get back on the road to due diligence potential acquisitions, even if it means quarantining.
3 min read · 14 October 2020
Leadership of Brookfield’s private funds group has been absorbed by the existing management team Van den Thillart helped build.
1 min read · 13 October 2020
Thoma Bravo is reportedly seeking $16.5bn for Fund XIV, which, if successful, would be at least 30% larger than its 2018-vintage Fund XIII.
1 min read · 13 October 2020
The link between Jeffrey Epstein and Apollo founder Leon Black continues to dog the latter: the latest developments on that below. Meanwhile, our virtual CFOs & COOs event is currently in full swing. Plus: Pictet targets tech, Riverside adds two, and more. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
5 min read · 13 October 2020
The bank’s private fund group has had two high-profile departures in less than a year amid a wider exodus of placement agents within Asia.
2 min read · 13 October 2020
Fund III was targeting $400m, according to a Form D fundraising document filed Oct. 8, which didn’t list how much the pool had raised.
2 min read · 12 October 2020
The US public pension has backed three private equity funds.
1 min read · 12 October 2020
A consultant's analysis indicates that a new asset allocation shifting more toward public equities would allow the pension to reach full funding over the next three decades.
2 min read · 12 October 2020
The firm sees an opportunity to offer preferred equity stakes to company owners hesitant to sell in the current market environment.
2 min read · 12 October 2020
