Fundraising

So far, $25 million has already been committed for Fund II.

Special Situations Fund III invests primarily in North America across numerous industries.

Ara Fund III's LPs include pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations from North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Panellists say the wealth channel isn’t the place for GPs to go hunting for extra capital.

Cay Freihofer, with Ridgemont Equity Partners for more than 13 years, most recently as a partner, left in September to launch Emerald.

Defying fundraising headwinds, private equity's mega-funds continued to set records in 2023.

The fund will invest in companies with products and services that tackle environmental or social issues.

The Sagard-PEM hook-up is only the latest in a recent run of M&A across the private equity industry.

The funds will focus on later-stage growth equity and credit investments in the technology, healthcare, consumer, digital media and other high-growth sectors.

Falfurrias Growth Partners I will invest in lower middle market companies in the software and business services sectors.