Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

BC Partners recently dropped out of the auction to buy WGSN due to concerns over the seller’s expectations on price, three sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The London-based private equity firm was in the second stage of bidding for WGSN, which has a price tag of 800 million pounds ($1.02

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Landmark Management has sold a 40% stake to Rosemont to help the firm’s founder execute an internal succession plan. Private equity firm Rosemont Investment Group has acquired a 40% stake in Landmark Management, a New York-based multi-family office that oversees about $4.5bn in non-discretionary client assets.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. So I had worked for two private equity firms when I got outta Stanford. What is the secret to successfully growing a private equity firm for you’re coming up on your 30th year?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Regulators are pushing private equity firms to do a better job when it comes to valuing their assets. Carolina Mandl and Chris Prentice of Reuters report US SEC overhauls rules for $20 trillion private fund industry: The U.S. He began with this post : So what will be the implications of the private fund rule?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

For all the years the investigation found child labor, PSSI has been owned by Wall Street's Blackstone--the largest private equity firm in the world. Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance."

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So all of the information that we were assessing on the public side is very applicable to the private side. And what I think distinguishes us at Wellington is that we’re able to utilize our public market investors in the due diligence process in helping us assess. They, they manage them, not what you guys do.

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The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

Graham Weaver is the founder and partner at Alpine Investors, a private equity firm, focusing on software and services. Graham has a really interesting background, both engineering at Princeton and essentially launching a PE firm while he was a graduate student at Stanford. WEAVER: Yeah. And I checked zero of those boxes.

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