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Damian Graham will move to London at the end of 2025 to take on the role, with current head of international Damien Webb moving back to Sydney as planned.

China's CIC is the latest institution to consider offloading a sizeable private equity portfolio. Plus: Why US managers shouldn't count their chickens despite a regulatory shake up; and TPG adds to its PE leadership. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The buyout shop has secured 50% of Fund V’s $900m target, primarily from domestic LPs, PEI understands.

"We harbour that view as a firm that a lot of the alternatives growth over the next five to 10 years will come globally," chief executive John Sweeney tells PEI.

Heightened fairness requirements could lead to a rise in acquisition premiums, increased transaction costs and procedural complexity.

With minimal exposure to manufacturing and physical good trading, the firm expects tariffs to have limited impact on its portfolio, according to chief executive Christian Sinding.

Here are responses from industry thought leaders including Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, Apollo and NYCRS across areas such as dealmaking, fundraising and secondaries.

The placement agent, which takes a generalist approach to primary and secondaries advisory, has made a number of hires from firms including now defunct Mercury Capital Advisors.

Pierre-Emmanuel Brard's hire is part of Blackstone's global push to raise more capital from insurers, PEI learns.