Private Equity
SEC priorities may be shifting, but recent enforcement action points to continued scrutiny of managers, says McDermott Will & Schulte’s Marc Elovitz.
5 min read · 20 July 2026
Disruption Matters season five delves into how private fund managers are orchestrating profitable realizations in an era defined by turbulence, uncertainty and shrinking routes to attractive IRRs.
10 min read · 22 June 2026
The growth of retail capital and secondaries buyer AUM is facilitating larger check sizes and reducing the need for syndication, say Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partners Drew Harmon and Lauren King.
7 min read · 01 June 2026
Secondaries have become a central tenet of private equity, as sponsors increasingly turn to bespoke solutions to manage liquidity across the portfolio lifecycle, say W Capital Partners’ David Wachter and Todd Miller.
5 min read · 01 June 2026
Specialization, globalization and increasing complexity are ushering in a new era for the continuation vehicle market, say Fried Frank partners Rhett McPhie and Andrew Rearick.
8 min read · 01 June 2026
As private markets have continued to expand, the secondaries market has become increasingly indispensable in delivering liquidity to private markets, writes Dawson Partners’ Yann Robard.
5 min read · 01 June 2026
Sellers are prioritizing price optimization over volume optimization, which means buyers can select the GPs and assets that they know and like best, says Northleaf Capital Partners’ Shane Feeney.
7 min read · 01 June 2026
The private equity industry has outgrown its ability to self-monetize, making secondary investors a key component of the ecosystem, says Cullen Schannep, a partner at Lexington Partners.
5 min read · 01 June 2026
The secondaries market continues to innovate, as the flexible structure of CVs lends itself to creative use cases and the capital flowing into these deals evolves, say Jefferies’ Ben Carper, Jason Morris and Joe Slevin.
8 min read · 01 June 2026
Hybrid fund structures are evolving investor expectations, say Citco Fund Services’ Tim Harvey and Allison Whaley.
5 min read · 01 June 2026