Trends & Research

Founders who are slow in succession planning risk handing over firms their successors cannot afford to buy, according to a report from Bain & Co.

The update to ILPA's original advice released three years ago addresses potential gaps where market practices have moved along.

Evercore and HEC Paris’s fifth continuation vehicle performance study found that top-performing CVs tend to best their buyout peers.

Disclosed healthcare buyout value fell to $51bn in H1 2026 from around $60bn a year earlier, with pressures from AI disruption and the Iran war contributing to the slowdown.

In today's edition, Trophy assets are commanding premiums in the secondaries market; Moelis taps Lazard for its private capital advisory buildout; Temasek-linked Azalea raises a smaller fund of funds.

Private equity-backed companies generally create more new jobs than their public peers, employing more than 13.3m people in the US alone.

As fundraising pressures mount, LPs are seeking greater control, sharper economics and stronger protections against succession and zombie fund risks, new research from the law firm shows.

The power of the global M&A market increasingly hinges on the presence of mega-deals.

Developments including the evolution of use cases and a wider universe of lenders create a more flexible yet complex ecosystem.