Fundraising

The Dutch manager’s systematic approach to buyout investing helped drive its latest fundraise, which wrapped up in two months.

With robust investment activity and some large exits, private equity in Canada bounced back in a big way in the first half of 2017.

The vehicle will invest alongside the Pan-Asia manager's 2015-vintage Fund II.

The investment firm is yet to set a hard-cap for its latest buyout vehicle, Private Equity International has learned.

The latest vehicle from the investment bank comes amid a slower mezzanine fundraising year.

China Life, the country’s largest insurer by assets, will contribute $840m to the fund and Chinese internet giant Baidu will commit $160m.

Market participants remain concerned about the overabundance of dry powder after a first half that delivered the highest level of fund closes since PEI first started tracking data.

Terra Firma chief executive Andrew Géczy is co-ordinating the fundraising charge at a firm working hard to shake off its image as a one-man-band.

EM managers invested more than they raised in the first half, according to data from EMPEA.

Investors in private equity need to pay closer attention to the operational infrastructure of their managers, writes Hamilton Lane's Mario Giannini.