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Most fundraising GPs plan to ask LPs for more time to hit final close: survey

The general expectation is that strong GPs who were already raising should be able to hit targets, but funds just coming to market, especially from newer firms, could have problems.

2 min read · 02 April 2020

Partners Group senior execs forgo salary in response to covid-19 crisis

The firm’s co-chief executives and board of directors have pledged 100% of their base salaries over the next six months to support portfolio companies.

2 min read · 02 April 2020

‘Most GPs are simply in fire control mode’

Joncarlo Mark, a former senior portfolio manager at CalPERS, gives his take on the current market: how LP co-investments will fare, what the opportunity set looks like and whether LPs will have to ‘walk away’ from some capital commitments.

8 min read · 02 April 2020

Market storm could wash out ‘tourist’ co-investors

Co-investment opportunities have dried up along with the broader deal environment, but many LPs continue to seek ways to invest alongside GPs into deals.

5 min read · 02 April 2020

Covid-19: GPs face heightened EU scrutiny on healthcare assets

Foreign PE firms looking to acquire healthcare-related companies in Europe can expect another three months of FDI review added to the deal process.

3 min read · 02 April 2020

Middle Market Deal of the Year: FFL Partners

The lesson from FFL’s investment in Crisis Prevention Institute is to not be afraid to take risks with a company that is already performing well.

4 min read · 02 April 2020

Side Letter: How Whitehorse shook up the market, Ardian's giant fund, raising rescue capital

We have taken a look inside the secondaries market's most talked-about upstart. Plus: news on various rescue funds, more money for seeding new GPs and how Ardian's mega secondaries fund is bigger than people think. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

4 min read · 02 April 2020

Deep Dive: How Whitehorse became the envy of the secondaries market

Whitehorse Liquidity Partners is a rising star of the preferred equity market, led by one of the industry’s most charismatic figures. What’s behind its success? A strategy treated as ‘genius’ by some and with wariness by others.

9 min read · 01 April 2020

Side Letter: 1 in 5 LPs to slow pace, ILPA on CARES, fundraising extensions

The advice to LPs is keep on committing. They won't all follow it. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

4 min read · 01 April 2020

One in five LPs to slow PE commitments due to covid-19

An exclusive investor survey conducted by PEI reveals three quarters of LPs will not reduce their target allocations to private markets in the face of the denominator effect.

3 min read · 01 April 2020

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