Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

European private equity managers are setting a high bar in environmental, social and governance performance, with half (51%) of the region’s managers now earning an “excellent” rating, according to LGT Capital Partners’s ESG Report 2024.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Jean-Michel Beghin, Managing Partner of Keensight Capital, and Arjan Hannink, Partner, add : “We are delighted to announce our continued partnership with Sogelink through this strategic re-investment. Valued at $1.45bn South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners said on Tuesday it had launched a tender offer to.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

The Seoul-based online fashion platform Musinsa has raised $130 million in a series C funding round headed by the global investment firm KKR. The capital infusion also includes support from Wellington Management. billion transaction gave the private equity firm 60 percent control over a joint venture.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The current economic climate of high inflation, rising interest rates, and market volatility is creating a complex environment for private equity while the abundance of dry powder capital and the need to deploy funds is driving continued deal-making. Due diligence is more critical than ever for private equity firms.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Private equity’s challenges in returning capital to clients are increasingly affecting hedge funds, which depend on the same pool of institutional investors including pension plans, foundations and endowments, for their fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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American Investment Council

APRIL 13, 2023

Private equity has a strong record of supporting small businesses and driving economic growth. 62% of investments made by private equity are in small businesses, providing them with the capital and guidance they need to grow and expand.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

On Tuesday, OMERS Private Equity issued a press release on this acquisition: OMERS Private Equity today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Integris (“Integris” or the “Company”) from Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Invest in Europe 's “ Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2022 ” research has shown that 801 European private equity, venture capital, and growth funds raised 30% more in 2022 compared to 2021 (€170 billion in 2022 compared to €131 billion achieved in 2021). Tamara Djurickovic of tech.eu

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

She will focus on diligence for co-investment, fund and secondary opportunities predominantly in the middle and lower middle-market buyout and growth equity space. QIC has also promoted Toby Suen from Principal to Partner, having joined QIC in 2019 from the private markets team at Abrdn, where he was Investment Manager.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

Those pension plans [that have] allocated heavily to private equity are less liquid themselves, so they don’t have as much money to recommit to new funds,” Pittman tells Private Equity International. BCI's PE program is split almost evenly between funds and directs which now make up roughly 42% of the PE assets.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking giants. Private equity firms have sought to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the same league as mutual fund behemoths like BlackRock and Fidelity and banking giants like JPMorgan Chase.

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