Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 5, 2024

Pontillo, whose practice focuses on leveraged buyouts and growth capital and venture capital transactions, joined Kramer Levin in 2021. He routinely advises private equity funds and management teams on international and domestic transactions.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The report quotes David Gross, Co-Managing Partner at Bain Capital, as saying: “We’re already seeing large leveraged buyouts in Europe, and more are on the way. Private equity is scaling up, with bigger pools of capital ready for major transactions.” However, there’s growing concern over the age of these funds.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5% Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) is a BDC that invests in technology, life sciences, and sustainable energy businesses. 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.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

He has previously represented private equity funds, independent sponsors, public and private companies, search funds, family offices, founders and entrepreneurs in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, recapitalisations, debt and equity financings, venture capital transactions and joint ventures.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 27, 2024

Hercules Capital: 9.5% dividend yield Hercules Capital (NYSE: HTGC) specializes in high-yield loans to start-ups that have raised funding from venture capitalists in the technology, healthcare, and energy sectors. This growth is how Hercules is able to fund a wide array of businesses and strengthen its overall portfolio.

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

Fund managers took different approaches during this time, some riding out the storm with cost cuts, “hibernating” businesses with sufficient reserves, and others simply handing over the keys of a few companies to banks so they can focus on the future.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

Eventually, Steve takes his experience and knowledge and stands up his own firm, New Mountain Capital, which is one of the largest private equity shops in the world. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. And I had no work experience in anything.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 7, 2025

Growth equity (66%), venture capital (53%), and real estate (51%) were also highlighted as attractive asset classes, reinforcing an ongoing diversification trend in private markets. This trend is especially pronounced in Asia Pacific, where 72% of GPs are considering launching funds in the sector.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. billion) funds approach to investing. The fund has been invested in infrastructure for 18 years.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

You also had this thing called monitoring fees, where a company that was purchased by a private equity fund or firm would have to pay the firm fees for its monitoring, for its oversight, for its management expertise that it was providing to the company. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to.

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