Manager strategy

Neil Lloyd, CEO of healthcare network Dental Partners, has five tips to scale up businesses quickly and sustainably and thereby enable ambitious buy-and-build strategies to flourish.

Behind the colossally popular fund of firms business Dyal is a suite of products the investments giant uses to fill the holes traditional markets can’t address.

For three decades, Investcorp has built a reputation connecting investors in the Gulf with opportunities in the developed world. Now, as it shoots for $50bn in AUM, it is carrying out its grandest plans yet.

Apollo and KKR manage more than $9bn across multiple strategies in a programme designed to deliver more than dollar returns.

The firm is raising almost $12bn in capital across two funds focusing on mega-buyout and mid-market buyouts strategies.

Once described as a ‘sleepy outpost’, this listed French firm is hungry for acquisitions and has international expansion in its crosshairs.

The US development finance institution's rebrand, including its plans to invest equity as an LP in private equity funds, has been delayed.

With Spain’s economy on the up, private equity activity is rising. Jose Manuel de la Infiesta and Ramón Betolaza of Black Toro Capital explain how the country’s special situations are shaping up.

Headline risks and recession fears in the Asia-Pacific private equity markets have put a greater onus on managers to pursue growth levers.

What strengths are they bringing to the team and how is the role changing?