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Ardian Buyout Fund VII is 67% larger than its 2016-vintage predecessor, including co-investment capital, and received commitments from more than 200 LPs.

Vitruvian keeps a low profile. Based on interviews with those who have invested with and worked alongside it, we discover why it is so successful.

The regime will have significant implications for fund managers and institutional investors, write lawyers from Herbert Smith Freehills.

A list of the biggest growth equity funds to have closed so far, including the alternatives giant's $4.5bn vehicle which closed this month.

Capital raising for its latest vehicle follows a restructuring at the firm in which its private equity, private credit and small loans businesses will operate as separate entities.

The Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund and the Local Pensions Partnership are among UK government pension schemes that have made the biggest allocation to private equity, according to PEI data.

The move comes as the buyout firm seeks to raise its biggest-ever flagship fund.

KLAR Partners will invest in the mission-critical services and asset-light industrial sectors of the Nordic, DACH and Benelux regions.

The firm has held the final close on its latest co-investment fund in a year where co-investment appetite and deal opportunities are expected to rise.

More than half of UK and continental investment teams were all-white last year and 12% featured no women, according to analysis by the two organisations.