Global private equity deal value was down 51 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2023, according to data from S&P. The volume of deals, meanwhile, dropped 39 percent. The industry’s co-investment community, however, is not going short.
Read Full Article »“If it’s in private equity or an alternative asset allocation, it’s a long-term investment strategy,” said Simon Oak, principal at Lexington Partners, during the Canadian Investment Review’s 2023 Global Investment Conference.
Read Full Article »Lexington Partners, the sixth-ranked firm by secondaries fundraising according to the SI 50, has expanded its partnership group as it seeks to raise its largest ever fund.
Read Full Article »The market for secondhand stakes in private-equity funds reached $57 billion in transactions in the first six months of 2022, a first-half record, The Wall Street Journal reported. But activity dropped off in the second half, as a decline in the value of public stocks...
Read Full Article »When Private Equity International gathered participants for its annual co-investment roundtable in London in early September, inflation in the eurozone had just hit another record. Volatile energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, combined with households...
Read Full Article »Co-investors are bullish about their opportunities to deploy capital in the year ahead, despite macroeconomic turmoil threatening to slow private equity dealflow. Co-investment opportunities are inevitably and inextricably linked to overall private equity...
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