Private Equity
Fears of a bear market, declining UK appeal and Asian acquisitions are expected to dominate the continent in 2018.
3 min read · 08 January 2018
Several huge closes drove the average fund size to $778.8m in 2017, up from $564.2m the previous year.
1 min read · 05 January 2018
Being creative and embracing new tools such as Artificial intelligence will be vital for investors in an increasingly competitive private equity industry, writes EQT’s head of equity Christian Sinding.
3 min read · 03 January 2018
The secondaries specialist will participate in a proposed transaction to move assets from Nordic’s 2008-vintage fund to a new vehicle.
2 min read · 03 January 2018
PAI Partners was nearly destroyed by an internal dispute in 2009. It's now back in market with its seventh fund. For our February issue we sat down with the firm's head to talk about the comeback.
8 min read · 20 December 2017
European LPs have been happy with their PE performance, but take nothing for granted, writes Sam McMurra
2 min read · 19 December 2017
The firm has ‘had its arm bitten off’ by investors trying to get into Fund VIII, which will be nearly 60% larger than its predecessor.
2 min read · 19 December 2017
In 2016 the death of Clessidra’s founder and figurehead threw the Italian firm into disarray and threatened to scupper a fundraising process. This year we met the man charged with riding to the rescue.
6 min read · 19 December 2017
European PE & VC and secondaries were the standout performers in ILPA's quarterly analysis of net internal rates of return.
1 min read · 18 December 2017
The second Hall of Famer is the 2003-vintage fifth fund from Scandinavian private equity firm Nordic Capital.
3 min read · 18 December 2017
