Private equity investing is showing signs of recovery after being hammered by the coronavirus crisis - but has some way to go to recover to its recent highs, new research shows.
US buyout house JF Lehman & Company has soared to a $1.35bn hard cap final close for its fifth flagship private equity fund, well above its $1bn target.
Carlyle's veteran co-CEO Glenn Youngkin is leaving the firm in two months after a 25-year career.
KKR has raised a smaller sophomore fund in its real estate credit strategy, pulling in $950m for the final close of the vehicle.
The $246bn-managing California State Teachers’ Retirement System has struggled to a 3.9% net return for the financial year as Covid-19 amid a huge slump in its private equity performance.
Blackstone's secondaries arm Strategic Partners has closed what is believed to be the world's biggest infrastructure secondaries fund on $3.75bn.
UK private equity fundraising surged to more than £47.5bn last year amid a more than doubling of capital flowing into venture capital fundraises, new data from industry body BVCA shows.
Blackstone, one of the biggest real estate private equity operators in the world, has hauled in $1.9bn for the final close of its latest secondaries fund dedicated to the asset class.
Limited partners are increasingly turning to debt and mezzanine infrastructure funds as they hunt for relatively safe havens for their investments amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The scale at which the European private equity industry has been besieged by the coronavirus crisis is becoming increasingly clear thanks to new data from PitchBook, with fundraising, dealmaking and exit activity all falling to
Advent International has reached a cut-price agreement to buy Forescout Technologies for $1.43bn, narrowly avoiding a court trial in the wake of being sued by the company for attempting to back out of the deal.
Private equity funds are being used for mass-scale money laundering according to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, which said the industry lacks adequate money-laundering programmes.
Private equity executives raking in hefty amounts in carried interest could be in line for a tax hike after the UK chancellor Rishi Sunak announced an investigation into the country's current capital gains tax system.
A record-breaking year for private equity investment in Central and Eastern Europe saw €2.95bn of capital invested in over 460 companies, new data from Invest Europe shows.
Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman were among superstar investors joining Blackstone's growth arm in leading a $200m investment round for Swedish oat milk producer Oatly.
US venture capital fundraising has already hit one of its highest total since 2006 this year with only two quarters gone, despite massive headwinds from the coronavirus crisis impacting on dealmaking and exit activity, new
Hong Kong is hoping to establish itself as a prime Asian destination for private equity and venture capital fund launches through the launch of its new Limited Partnership Fund Bill.
Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein believes the US is set for a long recession in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic - and that business must be ready for a very different economy when it opens
US and Asia-based early stage investor DCM Ventures has closed its biggest family of funds to date by hauling in $880m across a pair of new vehicles. The committed capital includes $780m for DCM IX, its
Blackstone has raised $4.6bn for the biggest-ever private equity fund dedicated to life sciences investments, hitting its hard cap for the vehicle.
