Fundraising

Renovus Capital Partners has raised $104.3 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing.

European private equity firm IK Investment Partners has closed its third small cap fund at a hard cap of 1.2 billion euros.

Aurelius has closed its new European mid-market private equity fund at 350 million euros.

Fundraising looks on track for another successful year with the most raised between January-March this year than any other equivalent period post-GFC.

Merida Capital Partners has raised over $77.3 million for its third fund, according to an SEC filing.

Thoma Bravo is seeking to raise $3 billion for its debut growth equity fund, reported the Wall Street Journal.

The world's biggest asset manager in recent weeks amassed nearly $8bn across its debut secondaries fund and its third renewable energy fund.

Our 10-slide interactive presentation breaks down the state of the country’s private equity landscape after a successful year of fundraising and dealmaking.

With the closing, Fund II is 79% larger than Brightstar’s inaugural fund, which collected $710m in 2018.

Crosspoint, which just closed its debut fund on $1.3bn, has a heavy operational focus, a characteristic that helped attract LP attention at a time when many investors were eschewing new managers.