The market for secondhand stakes has boomed as sponsors and investors hunt for liquidity on the supply side, while the demand-side is rising too amid a wave of new entrants looking to deploy capital.

The past 12 months has seen a flurry of high-profile changes across the asset management sector, with some of the UK’s largest fund groups announcing new leaders in 2024.

Nordic Capital wrapped up its second mid-market fund over the Christmas break, just four months after launching it into the ...

Tougher regulation of the traditional banking sector in the wake of the financial crisis has driven the growth of private ...

PE firms look to capitalize on the government’s “retooling moment,” but some would-be buyers may remain cautious until ...

Industry predictions and personal stories from senior figures in private equity are in this year’s most-read interviews ...

Private equity managers have grand hopes that dealmaking and fundraising will finally take off again in 2025. Their investors may have other ideas. Buyout firms, mired in a nearly three-year slump, ...

Buyout firm KKR has named Philippe de Backer as managing director of European public affairs based in London, starting 1 January. The former Belgian state secretary and minister for the Belgian ...

Call it the battle of the buyout firms, the private-markets melee, the holiday hostilities. Blackstone and Apollo Global Management have released their annual holiday videos. This year marked ...

Life sciences venture capitalists are fundraising at their slowest pace since before the Covid-19 pandemic, even though limited partner interest in the biomedical sector remains strong. Venture ...