Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. Many firms borrowed against their portfolio companies to sustain the private market boom while dealmaking dwindled.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

billion including debt, to help the private equity firm bolster its holdings in the chemical specialty sector. read more Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

(Alliance News) – Gresham House on Wednesday said that its shareholders approved the planned takeover by US-based private equity and debt investor Searchlight Capital Partners. read more The post Searchlight acquires Gresham House for £470m appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 18, 2023

Affiliates of Paceline Equity Partners, LLC, a Dallas-based private equity manager, today announced that they have acquired the Renaissance Dallas at Plano Legacy West Hotel, a full-service, upscale hotel located in the Legacy West development in Dallas, TX.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 28, 2024

The Financial Times partly attributes this issue to a significant slowdown in distributions from private equity funds. Private equity distributions have gone down, the IPO market has been very thin, and M&A has been held back,” said Nick Moakes, chief investment officer of the £36.8bn Wellcome Trust. “If

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Investors have begun allocating more to private equity strategies than private debt, according to iCapital, which has more than $200 billion in alternative assets on its marketplace for money managers. Third-Quarter Investment Highlights Active Equities Invested 600 million through a private placement for a 1.3%

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Private equity firms have been forced to write larger equity cheques for their deals as debt financing for global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) dried up amid rising interest rates, high inflation and fears of a recession in major economies.

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