Apollo back under scrutiny over expenses scandal

Appeals court says group’s practices troubling enough to reverse previous decision over former senior partner


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Private equity’s bet on life insurance turns sour

Setbacks for European PE-backed insurers fuel warnings over ownership shift


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Infrastructure: from investment backwater to a $1tn asset class

Early movers profited from unloved assets, but higher interest rates and more competition mean windfalls will become harder to achieve


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Advent and CVC make joint bid for European pet food business

Cinven-owned company down to a single bidding consortium as private equity faces pressure to exit investments


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Lego’s corporate model is key to its brick-by-brick success

The Danish company has benefitted from being built on a long-term perspective


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Unilever approaches private equity for its ice cream business

Bankers at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan reach out to buyout groups after parent company says it will jettison the division


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M&G’s Rossi targets private asset growth

FTSE 100 company chief focuses on under-developed private credit markets in Europe


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Beauty retailer Douglas’s shares drop 9% in underwhelming Frankfurt IPO

Lacklustre performance dents hopes of strong rebound in new European listings


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Redstone prefers rival deal to Apollo’s $11bn Paramount studio bid

David Ellison’s Skydance is negotiating for a stake in holding company National Amusements


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Banks wonder whether to beat private credit upstarts — or join them

Rather than going head-to-head, traditional financial bodies have decided to embrace the new world


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The daring raid on Barings that has shaken $1.7tn private credit market

More than 20 senior executives have defected to a brand new business set up by an Australian property executive


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Calpers bets on leveraged equities

Past performance does not guarantee . . . 


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How Hertz’s bets on Tesla and a Goldman veteran veered off course

Private equity-backed car rental group is struggling as US drivers shun electric vehicles


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Calpers to invest more than $30bn in private markets

Decision to raise allocation to private equity and other assets comes after it missed out on up to $18bn of returns


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Pension funds snap up real estate at steep discounts

PPF and Border to Coast among schemes hunting in the secondary market as their peers offload less liquid assets


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Abu Dhabi fund offers to buy out investors fleeing China private equity

Deal with Hong Kong-based PAG could provide exit at a discount for US pension funds


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Barings sues Nomura-backed private credit firm over ‘one of largest corporate raids’ in years

MassMutual arm files for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction after 20 employees defect


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PAI Partners strikes €330mn deal for Italian haircare group Beautynova

Private equity group will acquire majority stake from Bluegem as beauty market remains buoyant


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Private equity firms step up pursuit of white-collar partnerships

Accounting firms, consultancies and other professional services take outside cash to fund growth


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Why the UK watchdog is eyeing the big business of pets and vets

Private equity has piled into a lucrative industry that is consolidating fast


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Grant Thornton US sells majority stake to private equity

Deal with New Mountain Capital is largest to date as PE firms rush into accounting sector


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To tax or not to tax: private equity bosses feel the heat

The UK’s Labour party wants to tax carried interest as income and the measure features in Joe Biden’s campaign


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US private funds struggle to cash out from China

TikTok bill in Washington impedes path to exit investments after IPO market fizzles


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Will Douglas IPO be a dog or a darling?

Tricky exits


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Private equity advisers warn Labour’s carried interest tax plan will hit City

Lawyers and bankers say move will inflict Brexit-level damage on the UK’s dealmaking centre


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Private equity’s pet problems are a harbinger of things to come

The sector is attracting increasing regulatory attention


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UK competition watchdog plans probe into vet market

Competition and Markets Authority is concerned pet owners may be overpaying for treatment


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Is private equity’s $3tn problem starting to ease?

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Dealmaking slowdown leaves private equity with record unsold assets

Bain & Co report reveals how rapidly the industry has grown as well as the challenges created by higher interest rates


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How CVC struggled to makeover profits at beauty retailer Douglas

PE-backed perfume and makeup group, which has announced plans to list, performed poorly during the pandemic


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Lack of female-led ‘unicorns’ shows the need for change in the VC world

Women continue to receive only a small fraction of the funding from firms


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Luxury gym chain Equinox raises $1.8bn to avert cash crunch

Indebted New York fitness group needed to refinance $1.2bn in debt after pandemic closures led to a liquidity crunch


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Private equity is not the only threat to accounting’s partnership ethos

More firms are experimenting with alternative structures and ownership models


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UK Treasury says Labour tax raid on private equity chiefs could cost £3.3bn

Opposition party questions analysis of plans to apply top 45% rate of income tax to carried interest


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Asian private equity firms use controversial route to exit investments

‘Continuation funds’ gain popularity amid subdued market for initial public offerings


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Private equity group Carlyle to take control of London airport

Deal between buyout group and Esken ends months of wrangling over future of Southend airport


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Cinven agrees to buy majority stake in fund administrator Alter Domus

Deal between two buyout groups values Luxembourg-based company at €4.9bn


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CVC-owned beauty retailer Douglas plans Frankfurt IPO

German group looks to raise €1.1bn in a boost for the European IPO market


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Healthcare investor looks to cash in on pharma outsourcing trend with €1bn-plus sale

GHO Capital has put contract research group FairJourney Biologics up for sale


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The contrarian placing Elliott’s bets on the UK high street

Paul Best is leading the US hedge fund’s bid for Currys in an attempt to boost its retail portfolio


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EQT raises €22bn for private equity deals

Stockholm-based buyout group is predicting a revival of listings as it raises largest fund in its history


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Banks strike back at private credit in ‘aggressive’ push to win deals

About $10bn of loans have been refinanced in public markets as conditions improve due to rate cuts being on the horizon


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