Ares raises record $34bn private credit fund

Investors pile into private credit, with HPS and Goldman Sachs among those to have raised blockbuster funds


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Top BlackRock executive benefits from unusual ‘points-style’ bonus pay

Rob Kapito in line for at least $20mn in retirement incentives beyond annual pay and company stock


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Fertility app Flo valuation reaches $1bn as women’s health market takes off

Private equity firm General Atlantic backs start-up as it turns to ‘untapped’ market of those experiencing menopause


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Elliott brews up trouble at Starbucks

Plus, Carlyle sticks with its oil and gas investments, and BlackRock’s Larry Fink takes his time finding a successor


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US accounting firms rethink global networks

Mid-tier outfits under increasing pressure to overhaul networks as more clients want international services


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UK starts tax crackdown on non-doms and private equity bosses

Government launches plans affecting buyout industry and wealthy foreigners living in the UK


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The Carlyle outpost still investing in oil and gas

US buyout group’s London-based energy division combines counterintuitive strategy with commitment to cut emissions


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Olympus’s $2bn Soliant sale is rare profitable exit from buyout stockpile

Private equity firms have been sitting on about 28,000 unsold companies worth $3.2tn


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European credit group Hayfin Capital nears buyout deal

Acquisitions of investment shops have been viewed as a means of catapulting ahead in $1.7tn private credit market


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Blue Owl is bidding hard for the private capital big leagues

The nascent firm created by a 2021 Spac merger will soon manage more than $200bn


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Who’s exposed to private equity’s web of debt?

Plus, how Google’s plans to buy Wiz fell apart and GIC looks to buy western companies’ China businesses


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How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt

Complex layers of leverage could pose a threat to the global economy


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Singapore’s GIC looks to buy western groups’ China units

Sovereign wealth fund sees ‘opportunity’ as companies exit the mainland amid geopolitical tensions


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Transparency rules for US private funds lapse after SEC allows deadline to pass

Appeals court ruling that found financial regulator had exceeded its authority will stand


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Pension funds pressure private equity over labour risks

Calpers and New York State Common Retirement Fund push firms for stronger labour protections


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Mubadala buys majority stake in buggy brand Bugaboo

Bain is selling a stake in deal that values Bugaboo at several hundred million pounds


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How to tax private equity properly

A protracted game of chicken is under way over the ‘carried interest’ loophole


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Hargreaves Lansdown extends £5.4bn takeover offer deadline again

Investment platform says discussions with private equity consortium led by CVC ‘ongoing’


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Telegraph and Spectator set for first-round bids as owners hold for £600mn

Sale has drawn interest from media groups, investors and billionaires


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Banks risk coming late to the private credit party

The attractions for private credit funds of asset-backed lending are clear


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Where will private equity aim its $9tn money hose?

‘Use it or lose it’


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Blackstone increases pace of investment as it bets on looming interest rate cuts

Jonathan Gray says portfolio of world’s largest alternative asset manager shows signs of inflation waning


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Grant Thornton weighs deal to unite transatlantic affiliates

Accounting firm’s US arm has proposed takeover of UK and Irish businesses


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How ‘magic circle’ firm Freshfields won big in the US

Plus, the venture capital firms poised for a potentially massive Wiz payday and private equity retreats from returning cash with NAV loans


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Private equity lawyers wince after bankruptcy court ruling

Federal judge points to conflict in relationships with financial sponsor and debtor in Chapter 11 case


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BlackRock’s private market ETF ambitions draw scepticism

Preqin acquisition gives access to data but does not solve problems such as illiquidity of assets, say industry observers


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Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors

The tailwind of freakishly loose monetary policy is now over


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Private equity firms slash use of risky debt tactic to fund payouts

Use of fund-level net asset value loans to pay dividends falls 90% after institutional investors raise concerns


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Excesses of cheap money era are provoking ‘creditor-on-creditor violence’

Investors pay the price for flocking to so-called cov-lite leveraged loans with reckless abandon


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Private assets create an information void where mischief can thrive

Pluralsight lender group marked debts at seemingly implausible highs


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Wall Street groups to buy software maker Envestnet for $4.5bn

Consortium bets on growing demand for independent asset management among younger, more tech-savvy clients


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Brompton boss says decision to shun private equity helped weather downturn

Britain’s largest bicycle maker wanted long-term investors to help it pay down debt rather than increase leverage


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A borrower’s struggles highlight risk lurking in a surging corner of finance

Investors face a wide-ranging estimate of losses on loans to Pluralsight after demand for its training videos fell


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Private equity drives a hard bargain in bank rescues

The numbers are tilted in favour of the Wall Street vultures stumping up capital


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Temasek’s bet on private equity and China

Plus, lawyers try to make billions after nixing Elon Musk’s $56bn pay deal


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Temasek to prioritise US deals and stay cautious on China

Singapore state-owned investor ‘not in a hurry’ to invest in AI and warns of ‘hype’ in sector


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BlackRock among blue-chip investors as Melrose corporate raiders return

New private equity vehicle Rosebank Industries whose other backers include Norges and GIC will offer boost to London market


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MBA hotshots just want a one-off private equity deal

‘Search funds’ involving acquisitions of companies worth about $15mn have become popular among ambitious graduates


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Milan’s new members club hoping to attract the rich fleeing London

Plus, SoftBank is not planning to follow Elliott’s call and a former ‘Barbarian’ hunts mid-sized deals


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PE firm taps wealthy influx to Milan with private members’ club launch

Three Hills Capital Partners wants to take advantage of city’s popularity due to generous tax breaks


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The BlackRock private data deal that minted a UK billionaire

Sale of Preqin for £2.5bn has catapulted founder Mark O’Hare into ranks of Britain’s wealthiest people


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BlackRock creates a British billionaire

Plus, Blackstone becomes a whale in private equity debt and Shari Redstone revives her sale of Paramount


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EQT strikes £2.2bn deal for Irish video gaming group Keywords Studios

Swedish buyout company lowers price in agreement that underlines attraction of London’s stock market


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Beware shadow banks gobbling up more risk

Policymakers are directly or inadvertently fuelling the rise of the asset manager lender


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Blackstone snaps up ‘circular’ private equity credit risk

The US buyout group has become one of the biggest buyers of a fast-growing type of risk transfer product


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The ‘parallel universe’ between UK start-ups and pensions

Plus, Boaz Weinstein vs BlackRock, private equity’s march in the UK, and summer reading recommendations


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TDR Capital pursues City training business sale

Asda backer appoints Houlihan Lokey and Morgan Stanley to lead process for education group BPP


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Dealmaker Steven Klinsky quietly hits home runs away from ’80s limelight

New Mountain Capital founder played minor role in brawl for RJR Nabisco — and spent rest of career avoiding deals like it


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Swiss buyout firm Partners Group lands deal for stake in €900mn biotech firm

Sale of most of FairJourney Biologics means London-based owner GHO Capital realises close to 10-fold return


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Is the era of the mega private equity deal over?

The lack of exit options for investments has forced some executives to reconsider more swashbuckling strategies


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