Private Equity

Consumer goods

L Catterton bags $641m for fourth consumer growth fund

L Catterton will stay on the fundraising trail to give limited partners time to complete allocations, a source told Buyouts. The offering is expected to close in early 2021.

2 min read · 03 November 2020

L Catterton on the verge of closing largest consumer-focused fund to date

At its present level of commitments, L Catterton IX is already 35 percent larger than its predecessor, which closed in 2016 at $2.75 billion.

3 min read · 11 September 2020

Brookfield to throw a $5bn lifeline to retailers battered by covid-19

Brookfield's private equity, real estate and other platforms will share oversight of the retail initiative, which will make non-control investments in merchants with pre-pandemic revenue of $250m or more.

2 min read · 08 May 2020

Monogram Capital unveils Fund II as market turns chilly for emerging managers

Monogram Capital Partners II's launch comes as the fundraising market is being battered by the covid-19 pandemic, creating fresh challenges for first- and second-time vehicles.

3 min read · 14 April 2020

TPG Growth-spinout Knox Lane unveils $500m inaugural consumer fund

Knox Lane was founded last year by Managing Partner John Bailey and Partner Shamik Patel, both veterans of TPG's growth equity and mid-market buyout arm.

2 min read · 06 March 2020

Castanea Partners, once-hyped consumer investor, loses senior executives

Several high-ranking executives have left in recent years, including Managing Partner Steve Berg, who worked at the firm from March 2002 until September.

3 min read · 24 February 2020

Paine Schwartz Partners settles into food chain niche as LPs take notice

“We’re passionate about agriculture and we built the team that way,” Schwartz says. “We spend a lot more time in boots than we do in dress shoes.”

4 min read · 08 November 2019

Media mogul Peter Chernin raises more than $700 mln for investment fund

TCG Capital, led by the former No. 2 at News Corporation Peter Chernin, raised more than $700 million for an investment fund that will invest in a media-and-consumer landscape being fundamentally altered by technology.

3 min read · 05 November 2019

Industrials lead distressed companies; retail continues to struggle

2 min read · 29 April 2019

Yale endowment to stop investing in retailers that sell assault weapons

2 min read · 23 August 2018

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