Private Equity

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Equistone on LP appetites, Brexit and pricing

GPs should be willing to tackle complex deals, managing partner Guillaume Jacqueau tells PEI after the firm raised €2.8bn for its sixth flagship fund.

3 min read · 13 March 2018

The view from Edinburgh: UK pensions still wary of PE

UK pensions descended on Edinburgh for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association conference, but few rated the asset class as attractive.

3 min read · 13 March 2018

Korea Post seeks overseas PE firms for $200m co-investment

Applicants must make a minimum 1% GP commitment of the total fund size.

1 min read · 07 March 2018

Inside the Alaska-Railpen-PIFSS joint venture

Three sizeable investors have teamed up to back promising first-time managers with $700m. How will it work?

3 min read · 27 February 2018

IK taps re-ups for ‘substantially oversubscribed’ Small Cap II

The fund reached its €550m hard-cap and included €50m of its own capital, partner Kristian Carlsson Kemppinen told Private Equity International.

1 min read · 22 February 2018

Actis: African recovery could whet LP appetites

Continued spending and economic growth in Africa could hint at a return for private equity fundraising in 2018, according to Sherif Elkholy, partner at Actis.

2 min read · 21 February 2018

Golding raises €364m, eyes H2 for follow-up fund

The German private equity firm's latest buyout fund has allocations towards primaries, secondaries and co-investments.

1 min read · 19 February 2018

How LPs are driving positive change

There are ways for LPs to help direct the ESG agendas of their GPs, argues Marta Jankovic of APG and Invest Europe.

3 min read · 01 February 2018

Juggling act: how buy-and-build firms manage multiple funds

The Dutch firm's investment model allowed it to raise its latest €2bn vehicle while Fund VI was around 40% deployed.

3 min read · 29 January 2018

Secondaries fundraising hit record high in 2017

Private equity and real estate secondaries funds raised more than a combined $38bn last year, driven by Strategic Partners and Goldman Sachs Asset Management vehicles.

2 min read · 17 January 2018

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