Isobel Markham
Isobel Markham is Editor of Private Equity International, overseeing the editorial content of the monthly magazine and contributing news and analysis for PrivateEquityInternational.com. Based in New York, Isobel works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI Media’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Research from Investec shows more than 80% of private equity professionals have supported a philanthropic cause in the last 12 months.
GPs are holding on to assets longer as they seek to balance out lower IRRs with higher cash multiple returns, said UBS’ Nestor Paz Galindo.
Private funds’ flat structures and entrepreneurial culture should make it easy for women to rise, argue panellists in London.
Helge Lund is joining the firm as an operating advisor.
The French branch of 21 Partners, currently in market seeking €400m for its latest offering, has promoted two to partner.
This is the first exit from HgCapital 7; the firm is currently in discussions about raising its eighth fund.
The German listed firm has raised the funds through a share placement to invest alongside its recently-closed Fund VII, said CFO Susanne Zeidler.
The Northern England-focused buyout firm has sold the video game developer to private investment firm Perwyn after less than two years.
The C$287.3bn pension fund is also losing global head of private investments Mark Jenkins, who is leaving to join Carlyle.
The firm is investing alongside Banque Centrale Populaire in Atlantic Business International, a banking group in the UEMOA region.