Private Equity
<p><em>Former IR managing director Lisa Lee alleges she was fired in retaliation for her complaints about ‘systemic gender discrimination’ at the firm.</em></p>
2 min read · 21 January 2016
Returns on private equity investments may fall due to continued high valuations in the market, but investors will stay attracted to the asset class thanks to its outperformance over public markets.
3 min read · 20 January 2016
The placement agent has promoted Meredith Gendron in Boston and Niklas Amundsson in Hong Kong.
1 min read · 20 January 2016
The consumer brand-focused firm has raised $1bn toward a $2.25bn target.
2 min read · 19 January 2016
People are prepared to pay extremely high prices for the next ‘wonder product’ in areas like immuno-oncology products, Permira's Mubasher Sheikh tells Private Healthcare Investor.
1 min read · 19 January 2016
While this is the first time secondaries fundraising has fallen since 2010, the secondaries market is not experiencing a downturn.
1 min read · 18 January 2016
Cinven currently has just two healthcare investments: Labco, and US pharma contract research group Medpace, which it acquired for $915 million in 2014.
1 min read · 18 January 2016
<p><em>Although many GPs are in the midst of transitioning to the next generation as the private equity industry matures, the majority of US investment firms do not have a succession plan in place, according to fresh research from J. Thelander Consulting and PitchBook.</em></p>
2 min read · 15 January 2016
Brookfield Asset Management will spin out about 35% of its private equity arm into Brookfield Business Partners in the first quarter.
2 min read · 14 January 2016
Cambridge Associates examined more than a thousand private equity funds in the US and found that PE managers fundraised $18.3bn and distributed $39.1bn to LPs in Q2 2015.
2 min read · 14 January 2016
