Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Surprisingly, private equity firms are at the forefront of this trend, investing heavily in solar, wind, biomass, and other renewables. In 2023, private equity and venture capital transactions in the global renewable energy sector nearly reached $15 billion. The statistics underscore this movement.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 21, 2024

Surprisingly, private equity firms are at the forefront of this trend, investing heavily in solar, wind, biomass, and other renewables. In 2023, private equity and venture capital transactions in the global renewable energy sector nearly reached $15 billion. The statistics underscore this movement.

Private Equity Firms 130

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

is looking to raise over $10bn across two private loan funds in Europe and the US, according to people with knowledge of the matter, as the firm seeks to further capitalize on the growth of private credit. Blackstone Credit and other major private debt managers such as Ares Management Corp. Blackstone Inc.

Leveraged Buyouts 147

Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 147

Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

The two private equity firms are among the final bidders in the auction for DocuSign, which is set to be one of the biggest leveraged buyouts of 2024, the sources said. While the investment firms have not joined forces, it is possible that they may partner down the line to clinch a deal, the sources added.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

South Korea is cementing its status as a key destination for global private equity, drawing major firms such as Apollo Global Management and Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), with both having recently established offices in Seoul, according to a report by Private Equity Insights. increase from the prior year.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pennsylvania-based private equity firm Taurus Private Markets has held the final close of Taurus Private Markets Fund II, which initially targeted $150m, with over $211m in capital commitments. The firm also invests with blue chip venture capital partnerships with target fund sizes less than $750m.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 22, 2024

The financing could include a $2.4bn funded term loan, a $500m delayed-draw term loan and a $300m revolver. Banks are also said to be offering competing packages that include a smaller amount of debt and preferred equity. Private equity firms Onex and Vista Equity Partners currently own about 63% of PowerSchool’s outstanding shares.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 9, 2024

Hastings, who joins from Eversheds Sutherland, is a finance lawyer focused on leveraged and acquisition financing. Hastings acts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and for private credit funds in relation to transactions at all levels of capital structures.

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Axial

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

However, despite increasing numbers of independent sponsors, family offices, search funds, and other less conventional buyers, private equity funds remain the most prominent type of financial buyer in the market. Today we are featuring the 25 Most Active Private Equity Firms on the Axial platform.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt. Horizon lends capital to companies looking for additional cash runway, or sometimes even helps fund acquisitions.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

A&O Shearman private equity business advises nine of the 10 largest global private equity fund managers and 60% of the 25 largest global private equity fund managers, according to PEI 300 2023.

Leveraged Buyouts 75

Leveraged Buyouts Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financial Institutions 75

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Typically, a start-up will raise funds during its early days from venture capitalists (VC) or private-equity firms. In exchange for capital, founders will give up equity in their company. And yet, for the last few years, Ares stock has crushed a number of S&P 500 -themed exchange-traded funds (ETF).

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Leveraged Buyouts Due Diligence Initial Public Offering Exchange-Traded Funds 130

Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 16, 2023

PE firms adding hedge funds to approved lender lists Submitted 16/08/2023 - 11:22am Private equity firms, including buyout major KKR & Co, are beginning to add hedge funds to their 'white lists' of approved lenders used to arrange funding for leveraged buyout deals, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

A Review of Private Equity Industry Trends Disruption doesn’t quite begin to describe the experience of private equity investment trends in the last few years. The Fed’s moves to combat inflation put private equity firms in a tricky situation.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 23, 2023

He began his investment career as a trainee trader at Goldman Sachs in 1982, later moving into leveraged buyouts when he joined a unit of Nomura in the early 1990s. In 2002, he spun the unit out of Nomura to form his own firm, Terra Firma Capital Partners, which raised €2.1 billion for its debut fund.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms.

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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. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million. The second largest fund was Forman little with 150. These are, those entire funds are like partial transaction.

Private Equity Firms 69

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

Menlo Park, CA and Birmingham, AL – May 4, 2023 – Oak Hill Capital (“Oak Hill”) has committed $150 million in primary capital to Lit Communities (“Lit”) to further fund and accelerate the construction of Lit’s fiber-based network in unserved and underserved communities across the United States. Stephens Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism. Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale.

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The Private Equiteer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When it comes to the middle market, the deals usually fall in the $50 million to $500 million rangelarge enough to garner serious investor attention, yet small enough to often fly under the radar of the mega-funds. Leveraging Technology and Data Gone are the days when deal sourcing was solely about handshakes and business cards.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. You can’t do private equity. There’s leverage. And still growing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund, which includes the combination of the base CPP and additional CPP accounts, achieved a 10-year annualized net return of 9.6%. For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was 0.1%. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 7, 2025

If completed, the acquisition would mark another significant move in the regions growing private equity landscape. This transaction is part of a broader resurgence in LBO lending across Asia in 2025 as private equity firms capitalise on new opportunities. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Turn/River Capital agreed to acquire IT management software provider SolarWinds in a $4.4bn transaction, marking a significant move amid improving conditions for debt-funded acquisitions. The acquisition reflects a growing trend of private equity firms re-entering the leveraged buyout market as borrowing costs stabilize.

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Buyout Leveraged Buyouts Capital Private Equity Firms 130

Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that Carlyle is weighing options between securing bank loans or a private credit facility to fund the transaction. The firm is in exclusive negotiations with Livingbridge for a deal valued at approximately AUD1bn, as reported by the Australian Financial Review.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Carlyle Group is aiming to accelerate the pace of initial public offerings (IPOs) and asset sales in 2025, targeting $4bn to $5bn in exits from its private equity portfolio, in line with last years divestments, according to a report by Reuters. from $276.1m a year earlier.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, David Ru, is Chairman of Bay Pine, a fascinating private equity firm. They are not interested in simply flipping companies or buying firms, and then quickly selling them what they do. Much more involved than a consulting firm. How long did you stay at Oracle?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. And that’s why we’re focusing on them.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

The US PE industry, via the American Investment Council, is gearing up to push the incoming Trump administration for expanded access to individual retirement savings, potentially unlocking trillions of investment dollars for its funds, according to a report by the Financial Times. It doesnt seem smart.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Its energy transition fund was behind a $12 billion March deal for Australian utility Origin Energy Ltd. “A Brookfield’s ascendance comes as some private equity firms struggle to complete buyouts amid shaky financing markets and rich price demands from sellers.

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